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The City of Mesquite Police Department headquarters building has a 30.06 sign on the glass doors going into the Police lobby. Once in the lobby, you're pretty much locked down except for the doors you just entered through. The 30.06 sign is in english and spanish and appeared to be correctly formatted. There are Municipal Courts and offices in the same building but you can not directly access them through the Police lobby. I think that there is a door off the lobby that, I presume, goes into the Court lobby.

I wasn't brave enough to try it, so I complied with the law.

On a side note, I was there to turn in a presumed, I think obviously, stolen shotgun that had the serial number heavily scratched off. Since the barrel and the wooden stock was missing, the PD said that it wasn't really a firearm and I could have just thrown it in the trash. I decided to leave it with them to do with it as they saw fit. This was the second shotgun (from a relative's estate) that had the serial number obliterated/altered. The other one was a shotgun as well and Mesquite PD (who came to the house to run some other guns), said that I could keep this one, just don't take it out of the house. They took that one, at my request, as well. I read the federal code and it seemed crystal clear to me, not a lawyer but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express, that both those shotguns were illegal to possess, etc.