Guys.
You're forgetting Rule #1 of CCW:
"Concealed means concealed"
How often do you get a vehicle search when you go to the post office???
Well the problem is people who take off thier guns to not bring them into the post office are in fact even more likely to be noticed with a gun than those who simply continue to wear them.
So if you are planning to break the law by having it in the vehicle, why would you increase the chances of getting caught during removal and not break the exact same law carrying on your person inside?
All it takes is a person or monitored camera to see you pulling out your gun to leave it in the vehicle. A call of "man with a gun" and you can bet there will be a vehicle search.
Post office parking lots are busy places where people only go in for a couple minutes and are then coming back out. So there is tons of parking lot activity and plenty of people to walk by your window at the wrong time.
Transferring the concealed firearm from person to vehicle is the most likely time to be seen.
Some of us don't have mailboxes in front of our houses, and have to go to the post office in order to pick up and send our mail.
Those who rely on using a PO box would certainly be effected the most.
The person going to and from work will be unable to to easily check thier mail if they keep a firearm on them or in thier vehicle.
Many small business owners use PO boxes for thier mail, and often travel with decent sums of cash to deposit in the bank during the same regular trip.
They will be unable to legally carry a firearm while regularly transporting large sums of cash and checking the mail.
I wonder how many felonies the average permit holder commits, even unknowingly on a regular basis. Based on the number here unaware leaving a gun in thier car while going into the post office was a felony, I would say at least a few.
I do not see the reason for the restriction.
A person intent on committing a criminal act is just going to bring a firearm inside anyways. I guess the next time someone "goes postal" they want to insure the person shooting everyone is the only armed person in the post office.
First off, wouldn't they be required to post signs stating that you can't bring a gun onto the property?
The federal government is not required to inform you of any of its laws by posting them on a sign. You are required to know all of the laws, regulations, and codes.
The fact that full time lawyers who study law for a living do not even know how many federal laws there is total, nevermind what they say does not change that.
Ignorance of the hundreds of thousands of laws is no excuse.
You are also required to know when they change, and become more or less restrictive and obey them.
For example:
'Revisiting the Explosive Growth of Federal Crimes'
http://www.heritage.org/Research/LegalIssues/lm26.cfm
So large is the present body of federal criminal law that there is no conveniently accessible, complete list of federal crimes.
More than 40% of the federal provisions enacted since the Civil War have been enacted since 1970
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse", as the saying goes. You are not ignorant of this law anymore anyways.