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imkopaka wrote:

MikeyJ wrote:

imkopaka wrote: Good thing Texas law already protects us in parking lots, eh?

Federal law trumps state law. So the federal ban on guns in the parking lot of a post office trumps the state law definition of "premise", which does not include a parking lot.

While that is unfortunately true despite the constitution's obvious intent to the contrary, only federal law enforcement can do anything about it. State law allows it, federal law prohibits it. If I carry in the post office parking lot I could be arrested by FBI, border patrol, etc, but NOT by local PD, sheriff, DPS, etc.

So, the obvious next step is mounting 24 hr security cameras which can monitor all parking spaces to observe drivers while still in their car, in states where private citizens are allowed to be armed in their cars. When the observer spots someone obviously disarming in their car, while parked in the gov't lot, he records the license plate number of the car along with the relevant video and/or still images, and they go arrest the person. OR..... Easier and more efficient from a federal gov't perspective, they simply issue a federal warrant for the person's arrest, and wait for the next time state or local PDs stop him on a traffic violation........

How long will THAT kind of crapulence last before Congress does something about it?

anygunanywhere wrote:All three branches of the national government are stomping on the constitution.

Gov't "rightly" fears any document which limits its own power; so naturally, whenever given the chance to limit the scope of the document, it will do so. It must be resisted in those efforts.