PolskiG
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Ok so i'm going to pst this before my chicken is ready in the oven. My friend and I were downtown seattle today and she needed to get some papers for a new passport. We entered the building on 1st ave near Spring street and proceeded to the metal detectors. I asked the guard if there was a place to check my firearm which I was carrying openly. He pause and ask me, "for LE?" I said no, then he said no then, guns are not allowed in the federal building.
No problem, I told my friend i'd wait for her outside. I was leaning in front of a cement post surfing the web on my phone for about 7 mins when I notice a federally contracted guard walk past behind me down to the other side of the building then come back past me again, then turned around and approached me from behind and said hello. I took my sun glasses off and did the same. He asked me if I had credintials to carry my gun unconcealed like that or was I just a "Washington Open Carrier" I told him the latter and he said ok and that he was just making sure nobody was being alarmed.
Hewas being really nice and a little cautious, so I told him my story of metrying to get a lock box in the bluiding and that I was told that they didn't have one. I then told him, since he still looked nervous, that I wasn;t sure of the rules regarding guns and a federal buildings so if he felt better about me waiting across the street then I would go there, he said sure but not the building directly across the street since that was a federal building too. I left and thanked him for his concern
heres the question,
-Did I break any laws even entering that building with my gun? There were no signs in front,only posted at the metal detectors
-Was it illegal to be hanging out in front of the building?
-Could it have been a worse suitation if the gaurd wasn't so nice?
Sorry, cant spell check this post, my chicken is done.......
Ok so i'm going to pst this before my chicken is ready in the oven. My friend and I were downtown seattle today and she needed to get some papers for a new passport. We entered the building on 1st ave near Spring street and proceeded to the metal detectors. I asked the guard if there was a place to check my firearm which I was carrying openly. He pause and ask me, "for LE?" I said no, then he said no then, guns are not allowed in the federal building.
No problem, I told my friend i'd wait for her outside. I was leaning in front of a cement post surfing the web on my phone for about 7 mins when I notice a federally contracted guard walk past behind me down to the other side of the building then come back past me again, then turned around and approached me from behind and said hello. I took my sun glasses off and did the same. He asked me if I had credintials to carry my gun unconcealed like that or was I just a "Washington Open Carrier" I told him the latter and he said ok and that he was just making sure nobody was being alarmed.
Hewas being really nice and a little cautious, so I told him my story of metrying to get a lock box in the bluiding and that I was told that they didn't have one. I then told him, since he still looked nervous, that I wasn;t sure of the rules regarding guns and a federal buildings so if he felt better about me waiting across the street then I would go there, he said sure but not the building directly across the street since that was a federal building too. I left and thanked him for his concern
heres the question,
-Did I break any laws even entering that building with my gun? There were no signs in front,only posted at the metal detectors
-Was it illegal to be hanging out in front of the building?
-Could it have been a worse suitation if the gaurd wasn't so nice?
Sorry, cant spell check this post, my chicken is done.......