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RossA wrote:Please go back and read what I was responding to.
According to the post, [pre-paid legal] is apparently telling people NOT to park at the PO and leave their guns in the car while they go in (which would be perfectly legal), but to park somewhere else and walk a longer distance (unarmed) to the PO.
If that's really what they are teaching, they are NOT teaching people to simply obey the law, because the law never prevented anyone from parking right outside the front door of the PO and leaving their gun in the car.

I realize that. However, in this case [pre-paid legal] is right. Post Office parking lot is fairly unique in that regard, and we are prohibited to leave our guns in the car even in a parking lot. You can check with any reliable source, and you will see that it is the law. That's one of the main reasons I do not use Post Office anymore. I don't want to have to walk from another property to get to the Post Office. That law hasn't changed in years, and the case this summer, that many assume cancelled that law, is very nuanced and with details very specific to that case.

If someone ever gets arrested for having their gun in the car in the parking lot of a PO, I am sure, this summer's case can be used as a precedent. I just don't want to be the test case.

Unfortunately for all of us, the PO parking lot law still stands.

RossA wrote: If that's the case, then [Pre-paid legal service] is a bunch of idiots.
Why would I intentionally park farther away from where I need to go, and walk a longer distance unarmed than I have to?

[Pre-paid legal service] did not make the law, they are simply instructing their clients to follow it. Of course, it's inconvenient for all of us. Of course, it's a dumb and unconstitutional law. However, it is still the law, and it is [Pre-paid legal service] lawyers' job to instruct in accordance with the law, not in accordance with what's fair.

There has been no change in the law regarding the parking lot of the USPS offices. It is still illegal to carry there or even have your gun locked in a parked car. The recent case with a ruling that justified it was very nuanced and case specific. I can be used as a precedent, but it does not preemptively affect the current law.

[Pre-paid legal service] still instructs to park elsewhere to lock the gun in the car and then walk to the post office.