A Trump-appointed judge in Florida ruled that the ban on guns in US Postal Service facilities is unconstitutional, Reuters reports, allowing employees to carry guns at workplaces that had at one time was so violent, the popular dark-humor phrase for mass shootings was “going postal.”
A spate of gun violence at Post Offices in the late 1980s to ’90s led to bans on weapons in the workplace as well as a reorganization of Post Office operations. But District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle said that a charge against a former postal employee for carrying a gun into a federal office was “a blanket restriction on firearms possession in post offices is incongruent with the American tradition of firearms regulation.” Kimball Mizelle was born in 1987, after the post office violence began, so to her, it never occurred.