armoredman said:
SMMAssociates, I certainly hope you are locked out of prisons with a firearm. Stating that shows you have no idea about prison, thankfully.
Armoredman:
I sure do.... I'm an old rent-a-cop. Been all over the local jails, and while I've managed to stay out of prisons (both as a visitor and an inmate
), I used to hang with (on CompuServe) a couple of CO's....
Prisons are about the only place where I agree with the restrictions in OH law....
Courthouses and Police Stations (including, of course Sheriff's Departments) make some kind of sense, too, unless you've got a CHL, IMHO. A buddy of mine, now deceased, was with the local PD. For some reason he ended up being the only one legally armed in Judge's chambers one afternoon when somebody's mother decided to contest her good old boy's sentence with a firearm. She left in a body bag.... This guy used to manage to lock his gun in the Captain's Office and not be able to get it to take home....
While I'm a little concerned about the "emotions" issue in a Courthouse or PD, unless the building is sterile, the above can happen. (A lot of such facilities are guarded by one guy and a metal detector, too. Lotta good that does in many cases.... Another friend of mine managed to carry a Chief's Special in an ankle holster right into the sterile area of an airport. Nobody noticed.... No foul - he was a working LEO there on duty - but....)
Also, here in AZ we now have a safe storage law, requiring government buildings to provide easily accessable safe storage for firearms for legally armed citizens entering and exiting the building. Not the same as allowing unrestricted carry, but i don't see that happening anytime soon.
Pennsylvania does that, although compliance hasn't been too great in some areas. I'd like to see it as a requirement
anyplace that's posted. That'd get a lot of those signs off the walls....
Here in OH we have a long ways to go, but the CHL has only been in effect for just under 3 years, and the criminal-friendly governor who demanded many of the poison pills will be term-limited out the door in a few days. Anybody's guess how long it's going to take to get rid of some of the other stuff. "Plain Sight" was so silly that even the Democrats voted to kill it, giving the Governor the first veto override since the 70's.... Most of the rest of the goofy stuff sounds "reasonable"
if you've never carried and don't want other people to do so.
Regards,