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Bubba wrote:

GlockenHammer wrote:... snip Fed law (18 usc 930) prohibits your gun (and knife with blade longer than 2-1/2 inches, I might add) from entering the BUILDING. No sign is required at all... snip

OH NO !
I'm a criminal, a scumbag, a terrorist !

Maybe if I grind about 1/2 inch off the tip of my Benchmade pocket knife, then I can become a member of society again.

GlockenHammer wrote:You can hypothetical yourself to death, but here's my thoughts on this one.

Both 18 USC 930 and 39 CFR 232.1(l) need to be addressed.

18 USC 930 (which applies to any and all federal facilities) specifically defines the area in which weapons are prohibited as "a building or part thereof". My interpretation of this is the part of the building that meets the other criteria (e.g., owned or leased by the Fed Gov where Fed employees are regularly present for work.) This means any other part of the same building/complex/mall would not be off limits because there was a post office embedded in it. At least one Goverment agency claimed that the parking lots were "part of the building" and therefore made guns in parking lots illegal (they later found a similar CFR and dropped this ludicrous opinion).

39 CFR 232.1(l) applies to "all real property under the charge and control of the Postal Service, to all tenant agencies, and to all persons entering in or on such property". Since your case stipulated "If a Post Office facility is attached or within another facility that conducts public business outside the function of the Post Office", the deciding factor would be who controls that larger real property. If that isn't the postal service, the CFR would not apply.

Just my humble opinion. There is a dearth of case histories on these points as I mentioned in my earlier posts.