xCTL > I consider a shul a place of peace where guns don’t belong.
that is what I thought. As I said before, this shitah definitely has basis in how Beis Hamkdash was built. Still, we have brochos in the Torah that say that say that large enemy forces will be running away from our forces. I dare to venture that our forces there are armed. So, maybe the right arrangement would be for the packing person to stay outside while others are davening and then switch with someone else. So, you can pack while he is davening.