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chabouk wrote:

bburgi wrote:There are Federal and State funds at work simultaneously within the National Guard. You're right in staying there could be a difference depending on who owns the property, the thing is almost all National Guard property is owned by the state.

For the purposes of 18 USC 930, it doesn't matter who owns it. When a packing plant provides an office for the USDA inspectors, that office is a "federal facility". Even if Texas owns the land and building, if the technician and administrator are DoD Civilians, then the buildings where they work are "federal facilities".

Key point here is "that office". In your example the whole meatpacking plant and property are not federal facilities. Only the offices set aside for the federal employees to regularly work. Roving federal employees don't convert every building they walk into to a federal facility. Since it appears that a lot of National Guard Facilities are owned by the state, then the state law applies. As was pointed out before, National Guard troops become federalized upon order of the President, but I don't think the bases do.