MaverickNH
NES Member
Done to death, but for a recent case I couldn't find mentioned here yet:
http://www.examiner.com/x-6013-Hous...-buyers-and-postal-workers-Right-to-Bear-Arms
With regard to case number 2:08-cr-00042 in the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, the indictment charged that Clarence Paul Dorosan, who was a letter carrier, violated a federal regulation, 39 C.F.R. § 232.1(l), when he left a handgun in the glove compartment of his car in an enclosed parking lot that belonged to the United States Postal Service (USPS) in Gretna, Louisiana. Mr. Dorosan contended that the regulation violated the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, but the District Court denied a motion to dismiss the criminal case.
On appeal, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit concluded that 39 C.F.R. § 232.1(l) ["Weapons and explosives. No person while on postal property may carry firearms, other dangerous or deadly weapons, or explosives, either
openly or concealed, or store the same on postal property, except for official purposes."] was not unconstitutional because Mr. Dorosan had failed to show that the regulation placed any significant burden on the exercise of his Second Amendment rights. The panel reasoned that, if Mr. Dorosan wanted to keep a gun in his car, he should have found a parking place that was not on USPS property.
This may not be the final word, as the case involved an USPS employee wanting to carry on USPS grounds, rather that John Q Public with a CCW in a Post Office, but as it quotes the famous 39 C.F.R. § 232.1(l), it isn't a plus.
More at Volokh's site
http://www.examiner.com/x-6013-Hous...-buyers-and-postal-workers-Right-to-Bear-Arms
With regard to case number 2:08-cr-00042 in the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, the indictment charged that Clarence Paul Dorosan, who was a letter carrier, violated a federal regulation, 39 C.F.R. § 232.1(l), when he left a handgun in the glove compartment of his car in an enclosed parking lot that belonged to the United States Postal Service (USPS) in Gretna, Louisiana. Mr. Dorosan contended that the regulation violated the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, but the District Court denied a motion to dismiss the criminal case.
On appeal, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit concluded that 39 C.F.R. § 232.1(l) ["Weapons and explosives. No person while on postal property may carry firearms, other dangerous or deadly weapons, or explosives, either
openly or concealed, or store the same on postal property, except for official purposes."] was not unconstitutional because Mr. Dorosan had failed to show that the regulation placed any significant burden on the exercise of his Second Amendment rights. The panel reasoned that, if Mr. Dorosan wanted to keep a gun in his car, he should have found a parking place that was not on USPS property.
This may not be the final word, as the case involved an USPS employee wanting to carry on USPS grounds, rather that John Q Public with a CCW in a Post Office, but as it quotes the famous 39 C.F.R. § 232.1(l), it isn't a plus.
More at Volokh's site