By Stephen Dinan | The Washington Times
Second Amendment advocates went to federal court Tuesday to challenge the federal government’s ban on carrying firearms in post offices, saying it’s an unconstitutional limit on the right to bear arms.
The lawsuit, brought in federal court in Texas, argues that the ban cannot survive the Supreme Court’s new approach to gun litigation, which holds that only policies that would have been countenanced by the founding era can survive constitutional scrutiny.
The Firearms Policy Coalition and the Second Amendment Foundation said the founders envisioned restrictions at polling places, legislative assemblies and courthouses — all places where the federal government already provides its own security. But none of those are analogous to post offices.
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