10th Circuit Court Of Appeals Upholds Gun Control Measures

By Tim

Another court has ignored the Constitution as well as the Supreme Court’s D.C. v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago rulings, when the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the Bonidy v. United States Postal Service that gun rights are not protected outside of the home.

The law 39 C.F.R §232.1(I) prohibits the storage and carrying of weapons on USPS property. The district court found the law to be unconstitutional in its applications to parking lots, but not the ban for inside government buildings.

Circuit Judge David M. Ebel agreed with Circuit Judge Gregory A. Phillips stated:

We….conclude that the regulation is constitutional as to all USPS property at issue in this case, including the Avon Post Office parking lot, because the Second Amendment right to bear arms has not been extended to “government buildings.” Government buildings, in this context, includes the government owned parking lot connected to the U.S. Post Office. Alternatively, even if we were to conclude that the parking lot did not qualify as a “government building,” we would uphold this regulation as constitutional as applied to the parking lot under independent intermediate scrutiny.

Ignoring McDonald’s command that the Second Amendment does not protect “second-class” rights, …read more

Source:: GunsNFreedom