Eddy County Employees Have Second Amendment Rights Restored

Ammoland ^ | 26 April, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Across the United States, government employees’ right to bear arms while working is being restored.  One of the pernicious erosions of the right to bear arms that occurred over the last 50 years is the right of government employees to bear arms while employed.  At the start of the progressive era, government employees were considered part of the elite, and could bear arms when and where others could not.

In the first laws adopted by the new state of Oklahoma, statutes were adopted en masse from other states.  One of them exempted “public officials” from a ban on carrying weapons, as long as they were carrying them during their official duties, and to and from work.  Oklahoma Criminal Code, Section 1802, published in 1921:

Public Officials-Privileged Public officers while in the discharge of their duties or while going from their homes to their place of duty or returning therefrom shall be permitted  to carry arms, but at no other time and under no other circumstances.

In Wisconsin, before professional academy training was required for peace officers, the definition of peace officer included city council members, town board members, and county board members.  It was an inexpensive way to bolster the number of people armed to keep the peace.

As the professionalization of peace officers swept the country in the 1960’s and 70’s, public officials were removed from the definition.  As civil tort law was radicalized to subject more and more people to liability lawsuits, and the carry of weapons was demonized, employee handbooks started sprouting bans on the carry of weapons by government employees.

The restoration of the right to carry in the United States has reversed that trend.  From artesianews.com:

[marktwain]

Local government employees are some of the last to regain their rights to carry. The very last may be local governments in the disarmist states of New York, New Jersey, and Maryland.

It will take an act of congress to allow federal empoyees, other than congressmen and possibly their staffs, and dedicated law enforcers, to be armed.

[soycd]

When someone shoots at you first, you have the right to return fire. Anything else is anarchy.

Killing someone is not something to dwell upon, but do it if you must.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I saw the headline, saw the county court house and knew that was CARLSBAD NM my old stomping grounds back in the 1960s!

[353FMG]

“...the right of government employees to bear arms while employed.”

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Except for the military.

[marktwain]

“Except for the military.”

Trump says he is going to fix that.

Maybe Cruz as well, I am not so certain.

[Jack Hammer]

No one can ‘have rights restored.’

The rights mentioned in the US Constitution’s Bill of Rights are bestowed by God on Mankind as a natural legacy.

The rights can only be suppressed by corrupt regimes, later to be recovered by the People from those corrupt regimes.

[Rockpile]

There are four legged critters to consider when at work besides the human varmints. Wild dogs or rabid animals are a good reason to carry and that county has plenty of wild areas.

[cva66snipe]

I saw the headline, saw the county court house and knew that was CARLSBAD NM my old stomping grounds back in the 1960s!

AKA Rattle Snake Flats LOL. My late B.I.L. helped design the Nuclear Waste Storage facility there.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

My dad worked on Project Gnome. I still remember when they set off “The Bomb!”

[cva66snipe]

Ya know I think the perfect place for illegals who keep on entering and other legals aliens here just to provoke unrest is on the highway out of Carlsbad just inside the Texas line. That nice large salt flat that stretches for miles. Nice place for such a prison :>}

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

LOL! I know the place.

[CedarDave]

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