GOA Celebrates Win in Challenge to USPS Gun Shipping Rules

[rmc51]

GOA Celebrates Win in Challenge to USPS Gun Shipping Rules
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/01/16/goa-celebrates-win-in-challenge-to-usps-gun-shipping-rules-n1231240?utm_source=badaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=fc85d9fd0a377773055f1925941bbce485d3c69b5dace0c187ab5912dd7d0cd7&lctg=26251812

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The problem is that they won't let you ship guns. You can't send them to a gunsmith halfway across the nation with the service that your tax dollars help support.

Well...you couldn't.

Now, you can, and Gun Owners of America are celebrating a massive win in that, in a press release sent on Thursday:

Today, Gun Owners of America (GOA) and Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) hailed a landmark opinion from the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) declaring that 18 U.S.C. § 1715—the federal statute prohibiting the mailing of concealable firearms such as pistols, revolvers, and other handguns—is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment as applied to Second Amendment protected arms. This opinion was issued after GOA filed suit in Shreve v. U.S. Postal Serv., No. 3:25-cv-214 (W.D. Pa. July 14, 2025) on behalf of its members, seeking to have this exact ban declared unconstitutional. 

In its memorandum opinion for the Attorney General, the OLC concluded that the U.S. Department of Justice may not enforce the statute against law-abiding citizens seeking to ship or receive handguns used for lawful purposes, including self-defense, target shooting, and hunting. The opinion directs the Postal Service to modify its regulations accordingly to align with the Constitution. And it recommends that the statute not be criminally enforced...

 
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[Sighlass]

Now if only I could ship without going through a couple of GA/AL mail centers which tend to "lose" thing.

But good news to hear... thanks for sharing.

[libertybele]