Guns on federal property... felony.
See the notice section below. Very hard to prosecute this.
§930. Possession of firearms and dangerous weapons in Federal facilities
(a) Except as provided in subsection (d), whoever knowingly possesses or causes
to be present a firearm or other dangerous weapon in a Federal facility (other
than a Federal court facility), or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this
title or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.(b) Whoever, with intent that
a firearm or other dangerous weapon be used in the commission of a crime,
knowingly possesses or causes to be present such firearm or dangerous weapon in
a Federal facility, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.(c) A person who kills any person in
the course of a violation of subsection (a) or (b), or in the course of an
attack on a Federal facility involving the use of a firearm or other dangerous
weapon, or attempts or conspires to do such an act, shall be punished as
provided in sections 1111, 1112, 1113, and 1117.(d) Subsection (a) shall not
apply to-(1) the lawful performance of official duties by an officer, agent, or
employee of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision thereof, who
is authorized by law to engage in or supervise the prevention, detection,
investigation, or prosecution of any violation of law;(2) the possession of a
firearm or other dangerous weapon by a Federal official or a member of the
Armed Forces if such possession is authorized by law; or(3) the lawful carrying
of firearms or other dangerous weapons in a Federal facility incident to
hunting or other lawful purposes.
(e)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), whoever knowingly possesses or
causes to be present a firearm or other dangerous weapon in a Federal court
facility, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not
more than 2 years, or both.(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to conduct which
is described in paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (d).(f) Nothing in this
section limits the power of a court of the United States to punish for contempt
or to promulgate rules or orders regulating, restricting, or prohibiting the
possession of weapons within any building housing such court or any of its
proceedings, or upon any grounds appurtenant to such building.(g) As used in
this section:(1) The term "Federal facility" means a building or part thereof
owned or leased by the Federal Government, where Federal employees are
regularly present for the purpose of performing their official duties.(2) The
term "dangerous weapon" means a weapon, device, instrument, material, or
substance, animate or inanimate, that is used for, or is readily capable of,
causing death or serious bodily injury, except that such term does not include
a pocket knife with a blade of less than 2½ inches in length.(3) The term
"Federal court facility" means the courtroom, judges' chambers, witness rooms,
jury deliberation rooms, attorney conference rooms, prisoner holding cells,
offices of the court clerks, the United States attorney, and the United States
marshal, probation and parole offices, and adjoining corridors of any court of
the United States.
(h) Notice of the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) shall be posted
conspicuously at each public entrance to each Federal facility, and notice of
subsection (e) shall be posted conspicuously at each public entrance to each
Federal court facility, and no person shall be convicted of an offense under
subsection (a) or (e) with respect to a Federal facility if such notice is not
so posted at such facility, unless such person had actual notice of subsection
(a) or (e), as the case may be.
“Each of us is in truth an idea of the Great Gull and an unlimited idea of
freedom.”
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
