paramedic
Regular Member
I think this may have been asked before, trying to figure out the whole courthouse/courtroom issue. If it is a county owned building the houses the courtrooms, but also housed all the local county offices, clerks office, county states atty, and others. All the court rooms are upstairs. Wife and I had an occasion to go there, the last time I was there when I entered in throught the front door there was no gun buster sign (although I had not carried due to going into the courtroom). I told the wife that I did not see a sign last time, so she started in the building, she was origanlly OC, but decided to cover so as to not cause problems. Well the Sheriffs office is right next to it, and that was actually where I had walked into, I was OCing, I have a few friends in the SO, and have carried in there before. While on the way in the building my wife noticed the no weapons sign, so she turned around as was heading back to the car, a deputy approached and asked her where her firearm was, when she pulled up her shirt, he grabbed her arm and stated he was going to disarm her due to carrying in the court house. Now please note that she had not entered the building, had not even stepped on the platform that activates the automatic door. She stated that he did not have a lawful reason for taking her weapon. He then literally pulled her by the arm into the sheriffs office, I was standing there speaking with one of the deputies, that I did not actually know. Well without going into too much detail, they just allowed her to go to car and put her weapon in the car. I explained to them the last time I was there I went in the front door where there is no sign, so I told her it should be ok. Many other "laws" were quoted to us by other LEO's. A major part of the discussion was about where you can an can not carry, one of them a supervisor countered with you can not carry in places like the DMV because it is state owned, and he stated you could not carry in bars( I loved that one). In the end since they did not push it any further since they actually did not arrest her, we let it go for now. Although I have a feeling the may push it later and try to charge her another time. Unfortunatetlly when all this was transpiring in the SO, I did not realize she had not gone into the building, I actually thought she had gone in, and then he detained her. I appologize this is so long, just did not how else to explain the whole of the situation.
NO ED, we did not have our voice recorder with us:banghead:
NO ED, we did not have our voice recorder with us:banghead:
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