Excerpt: “The following notice outlines a set of specific instructions for USAID staff who wish to obtain their personal effects from the Ronald Reagan Building (RRB). These instructions are reflective of a joint effort between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), General Services Administration (GSA), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the Department of State (DoS). This Thursday and Friday ONLY–on February 27 and 28, 2025 –USAID staff will have the opportunity to retrieve their personal belongings from the RRB during a designated date and time as provided below. Staff should read this message carefully before attempting to retrieve their items from the building this week. … Staff must not bring any prohibited items along with them. Anyone carrying a prohibited item will not be permitted to enter the building. Prohibited items will be confiscated and staff will be escorted from the building if they fail to comply. Prohibited items [include]:
- BB guns, compressed air guns, firearms (unless meeting the exceptions listed in 18 U.S.C. § 930), flare pistols, gun lighters, parts of guns and firearms, pellet guns, realistic replicas of firearms, spear guns, starter pistols, stun guns/cattle prods/shocking devices, and ammunition;
- Axes and hatchets, bows and arrows; drills, including cordless portable power drills; ice axes/ice picks; throwing stars (martial arts); knives, sabers, swords, daggers, and other bladed devices of any length with the exception of a pocket knife with a blade of less than 2½ inches in length; saws, including cordless portable power saws; razor-type blades such as box cutters, utility knives, and razor blades not in a cartridge, but excluding safety razors;
- Billy clubs, blackjacks, brass knuckles, crowbars, hammers, martial arts weapons, including nunchucks and Kubatons, nightsticks, ski poles;
- Blasting caps, dynamite, fireworks, flares in any form, gunpowder, hand grenades, plastic explosives, realistic replicas of explosives;
- Fuels, including cooking fuels and any flammable liquid fuel, gasoline, gas torches, including micro-torches and torch lighters, turpentine and paint thinner, realistic replicas of incendiaries;
- Chlorine for pools and spas, compressed gas cylinders, including fire extinguishers, liquid bleach, mace, pepper spray, spillable batteries, except those in wheelchairs; spray paint; tear gas, and helium balloons.”
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