Posted on 01/14/2024 11:38:40 AM PST by zeugma
Read the entire decision here:
United States v. Ayala
The Left will be filling their diapers like a Biden over this...
He resisted the soldiers of the King.
In order to be arrested for resisting arrest, time travel is clearly required.
On a related note, I occasionally follow online discussions concerning possession of a firearm while in a post office parking lot. Say a guy pulls up to a drop-off mail box in the lot. He’s going hunting, and has a rifle in the rifle rack of his truck. Some cop or postal inspector notices that. Can the cop legally arrest the truck guy?
The answer seems to be yes. Truck guy is in trouble. Hopefully this latest ruling will help to fix that.
Because resisting arrest has nothing to do with the constitutionality or the rectitude of the law under which you're arrested. It's a completely different thing. Unless you're a sovereign citizen, of course.
> Being forced to leave your gun in the car does not make anyone safer. <
As I noted in my post #5, if that car is in the post office parking lot you are still breaking the law (I think). I have to say “I think” because there seems to be no firm consensus on that.
Most online law firms who talk about this parking lot thing say you are in trouble. But not all of them do. So if lawyers can’t agree, how can a citizen know what to do? I suppose it’s best to play it safe. The wrong cop would just love to make your life miserable.
I thought the purpose of the law was to protect citizens from post office workers who were at risk of “going postal.”
Resisting arrest can’t be the primary charge.
I gotta be the straight man for that comic line.
No, the purpose of all "gun control" laws is to disarm law-abiding citizens. That is because politicians are doing things to ordinary citizens for which they rightly fear that ordinary citizens might shoot them.
The "gun controllers" never miss an excuse to impose more restrictions. It is about "Public Safety". Theirs, not yours.
Indeed. I recall that.
Seeing as Mailmen getting jumped by local “youths” is a semi regular occurrence maybe they should all carry guns
What if the gun was in the trunk?
> What if the gun was in the trunk? [in a post office parking lot] <
According to what I’ve read, you’re still breaking federal law. But of course the police would have to have a reason to search your car first.
What’s the chance of that happening in one visit, or in a thousand visits? Pretty darn low. Still it’s a shame a citizen has to worry about such things in the first place.
I remember getting my Iowa professional CCW & back then it was state law no guns in hospitals,casinos or Post offices cuz the mail man don’t need help Groton shooting his supervisor!😎
I remember getting my Iowa professional CCW & back then it was state law no guns in hospitals,casinos or Post offices cuz the mail man don’t need help shooting his supervisor!😎
I remember getting my Iowa professional CCW & back then it was state law no guns in hospitals,casinos or Post offices cuz the mail man don’t need help shooting his supervisor!😎 (fixed it)
The security guard at the Social Security office said I couldn’t bring my average sized pocket knife in because it was a federal facility. Really? Maybe this will end that foolishness.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.