If we are going to be proposing bills to expand gun rights at the Federal level that won't pass, why not go big but reasonable.
Something to the effect of...
"Congress has determined that "sensitive places" as noted in Heller as places where restrictions on gun possession may be Constitutional are hereby defined, under Federal statute and US Code and Postal regulations, as only those locations under Federal control not accessible to the General Public in the normal course of business and clearly demarcated by physical intrusion prevention measures and/or armed security and screening devices."
Voila, if it isn't an "employee's only" area (including behind the counter of the lobby) of a Federal office, Post Office or Park building, with a locked counter or door or clearly fenced off parking area to demonstrate that fact, state law would apply.
Places like military bases and Federal Courthouses and FBI/DEA offices and other already secured facilities would be unaffected.
It'd be hard to paint that as "unreasonable." After all, barring carry merely due to the presence of Federal employees in a place otherwise open to the public logically calls for banning carry everywhere else those employees happen to go off work.
If we are going to be proposing bills to expand gun rights at the Federal level that won't pass, why not go big but reasonable.
ReplyDeleteSomething to the effect of...
"Congress has determined that "sensitive places" as noted in Heller as places where restrictions on gun possession may be Constitutional are hereby defined, under Federal statute and US Code and Postal regulations, as only those locations under Federal control not accessible to the General Public in the normal course of business and clearly demarcated by physical intrusion prevention measures and/or armed security and screening devices."
Voila, if it isn't an "employee's only" area (including behind the counter of the lobby) of a Federal office, Post Office or Park building, with a locked counter or door or clearly fenced off parking area to demonstrate that fact, state law would apply.
Places like military bases and Federal Courthouses and FBI/DEA offices and other already secured facilities would be unaffected.
It'd be hard to paint that as "unreasonable." After all, barring carry merely due to the presence of Federal employees in a place otherwise open to the public logically calls for banning carry everywhere else those employees happen to go off work.