Legal Opinion · Concurring in part, dissenting in part

Bonidy v. United States Postal Service

Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Decided June 26, 2015No. 13-1374, 13-1391Published

1Concurring in part, dissenting in partTymkovich, Circuit Judge

Tab Bonidy is a licensed gun owner in Colorado who wants to carry his firearm when he picks up mail from a ski town post office. He asserts a right to (1) carry a firearm within the post office itself, or, at the very least, (2) store a gun in his truck in the public parking lot owned by the post office. A federal regulation prevents him from doing either.1

Our precedent requires us to apply intermediate scrutiny to this regulation. And I agree with the majority that under intermediate scrutiny the Postal Service’s regulation is valid as applied to gun possession inside the post office,…

2Cases cited24 opinions

  1. Ward v. Rock Against RacismSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
  2. District of Columbia v. HellerSupreme Court of the United States · 2008
  3. McDonald v. City of ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
  4. Burson v. FreemanSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
  5. United States v. KokindaSupreme Court of the United States · 1990

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