This was my talk at the Gun Rights Policy Conference of 2025 in Salt Lake City, sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
This was my talk at the Gun Rights Policy Conference of 2025 in Salt Lake City, sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
Mas,
Do you care to weigh in on recent court decisions concerning the carrying of concealed weapons in post offices and how they affect citizens in general and SAF members in particular?
Jim
Since Second Amendment Foundation and Firearms Policy Coalition were the named plaintiffs, the decision says their members can carry concealed in post offices.
If you don’t mind a follow-up question, how will a law enforcement officer investigating a concealed carrier in a post office know whether or not the armed citizen is a member of SAF or FPC who falls under the ruling vs. some rando to whom the ruling doesn’t apply?
Personally (and I am not a lawyer), I’ve never understood the reasoning behind rulings that only apply relief to members of plaintiff organizations. As if to say, the law is unconstitutional as applied to members of SAF and FPC, but prohibiting the rest of us from fully exercising our rights is still Constitutional.
Some citizens are more equal than others?
It’s a start, and people who join the organization(s) now are included. Baby steps. Smart thing would be to have your membership card in your wallet at all times and a copy of the decision in your glove box or saved on your phone.
https://youtu.be/KagRsL_bPa4?si=bIUsAlEIB_YsSNtA
I couldn’t make it out to Utah but appreciate all the video clips of the speakers on the 2A site.
The Anti-Gunners (Deamoncrats) cannot speak unless it’s a lie…
HALLELUJAH!!! It’s wonderful to hear good news!
The mention of defensive gun use without having to fire a shot reminded me of a story from one of the 1990s Balkan Wars. Selco Begovic (SHTF Survival Stories: Memories from the Balkan War) writes about a lawyer who wanted to defend himself. I suppose the gun stores and/or armories were already looted, so he went into a museum. There he found an old belt-fed machine gun. Maybe it was an MG-42, I don’t know. It was de-milled, so it could not fire. Nevertheless, it looked wicked, so it kept him safe for probably a year of hard times in a city. Gangs saw him carrying that gun, and decided not to mess with him. Imagine bluffing your way through a year of hard times, with a non-firing gun!
reality is what any given person THINKS it is at the time and place. Seeing some guy walking up the street with what looks like a real machine gun elicits the same response as i it really IS a real machine gun.
I know I would never “push the envelope” should I see something that looks real in some stranger’s hands.
As always outstanding presentation. Thanks, Mas.