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Here is Judge Reed O'Connor's 'logic,' if you could call it that: "Even after the government started housing post offices in federal buildings in the early 1900s, it waited until 1964 to prohibit guns in federal buildings and 1972 to specifically prohibits firearms on postal property. In other words, even though Congress and the founders were aware of the general societal problem' of violence towards the postal service, the prohibition against firearms in post offices or on postal property did not appear until nearly 200 years after the founding." In 2024, two gun rights groups, the Firearms Policy Coalition and the Second Amendment Foundation, as well as two shills for the gun lobbies, challenged a federal law prohibiting possessing a "firearm or other dangerous weapon" in a "federal facility." The gun lobby is doing a fantastic job ensuring that firearm proliferation throughout the US is more important than keeping Americans safe and secure from being shot. So, now we can expect shootings again in post offices which led to the term 'going postal.' Every eleven minutes in the US, someone is killed with a firearm, either by an assailant or a self-inflicted wound.