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Thanks for the replies.
I understand the suggestion re: buy an OLL AR-15 however, I'm playing this one carefully. I do not want to go through any unnecessary stops or legal i$$ues.
The 1000' boundary is just uphill from me, about 100 yards up the road. Currently I am outside of that boundary. If this 1,500' extension passes I'll be WITHIN the boundary. That would really be a bad thing. I carry every day here at home because I am home every day due to a disability. If I step out into the street I'm ok now. But If I step out into the street after any extension of this unreasonable school zone law, I'll be subjecting myself to detention, arrest, the works.
A complicating factor is that I live within a HOA that recently had a kid with a airsoft rifle walking around and all the old ladies got freaked out and now the HOA has issued a letter to all Owners / tenants / residents that "All guns, toy guns, pellet or BB guns" are not allowed on the common areas". See my other post regarding that situation as it is a side issue but is part of my struggle to be lawful here. I'll be posting a new update on that thread later.
So I am trying to find out if there is a way to repeal that school zone law. It seems to be contrary to at least one or two Constitutional Amendments, namely the 2nd but also the 14th Amendment. If I was a gun owner within 1000' of a school and I was otherwise legally carrying and stepped off my front lawn and onto the street, I would feel VERY oppressed and singled out. Why is it that my neighbor down the street, outside of the 1000' zone can walk around legally? Why is it that I am 950' away from a school, which I cannot even SEE because it is down the street and around two corners, yet I am breaking the law by exercising my rights?
See where I am going with this? The 14th Amendment provides for equal protection under the law AND procedural DUE PROCESS clauses that protect against situations like this. The Amendment reads "requiring that certain steps, such as a hearing, be followed before a person's "life, liberty, or property" can be taken away." Doesn't that protect persons within the 1000' zone from having their 2nd Amendment RIGHTS removed or restricted while their neighbor who could be 50' further away from the school, can walk around legally (the liberty part) with a pistol on his or her belt (the Second Amendment part)?
Also, The amendment's Equal Protection Clause requires states to provide equal protection under the law to all people within their jurisdictions. Seems to me that if my neighbor who is outside of the zone can walk around with his or her pistol on their belt, then I should be able to as well.
Seems to me that this school zone law is un-Constitutional. Period. And I want it repealed. Period. I understand WHY it was put in place BUT I know as well as most of you do that criminals intent on doing bad things do not worry about laws like this.
I think we need people within these school zones to speak out about this and get something going to repeal it. I'm willing to go to great lengths to do something about this. Are you?
