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Old Nov 3, 2013 | 4:44 pm
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Originally Posted by bfxfd
No it would not. That law applies to the military. TSA screeners are not military. There are plenty of armed Federal LEOs that perform very similar duties to TSA i.e US Capitol Police. Posse Comitatus forbids the military from acting as a civilian police force.
Armed Feds can't enforce state laws.

DC isn't a state.
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