In a win for the Second Amendment and law-abiding gun owners across America, a federal court has ruled that bans on carrying firearms in U.S. Post Offices are unconstitutional.
And, yes, as I wrote in the headline, "Democrats hardest hit," given that the gun-grabbing Democrat Party never saw a firearm it didn't want to control, restrict, or outright ban.
As reported by RedState's sister site, "Bearing Arms," on Wednesday, Chief United States District Judge Reed O’Connor handed down an opinion on Firearms Policy Coalition Inc, et.al. v. Bondi. FPC was joined by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) in challenging the federal law.
The ruling also applies to carrying firearms on property surrounding post offices.
Here's more, via Bearing Arms:
O’Connor wrote that the law “is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment with respect to Plaintiffs’ (and their members) possession and carrying of firearms inside of an ordinary United States Post Office or the surrounding Post Office property.” There’s nothing in the order limiting it to Texas and applies to all members of the Second Amendment Foundation and Firearms Policy Coalition.
The complaint was originally filed in June 2024 and the named defendant was then-Attorney General Garland. “So if the government seeks to restrict firearms in a particular location as a ‘sensitive place,’ it must prove that its current restriction is sufficiently analogous to a ‘well-established and representative historical analogue,’” the complaint said.
This order in Texas comes at the heels of the Department of Justice dropping a bid for an appeal in a criminal matter involving carriage on U.S. Postal Service property. U.S. v. Ayala in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida involved defendant Ayala’s possession of a firearm on postal grounds. District Court Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle wrote that: “The United States fails to meet its burden of pointing to a historical tradition of firearms regulation justifying Ayala’s indictment under § 930(a).”
Judge O’Connor struck down both the federal statute (18 U.S.C. § 930(a)) and USPS regulation (39 C.F.R. § 232.1(l)) that prohibited firearm possession and carry at ordinary post offices — not those situated on military bases or within multi-use federal complexes.
Such rulings, whether favorable to Second Amendment rights or against, highlight the decades-old debate between the left, which absurdly blames "gun violence" — as if firearms themselves committed crimes — and the right, which correctly asserts that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."
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SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut said in a statement after the ruling:
Millions of people across the country visit the U.S. Post Office as part of their daily routine. As we’ve stated throughout this case, there is no historical tradition of banning firearms at post offices, and peaceable Americans all over the country should not be forced to choose between using basic postal services and the exercise of their fundamental rights. Today’s ruling is an encouraging step towards restoring these rights.
As we continue to see, on an alarmingly increasing basis, from near-daily mass shootings to the horrific public murder of Turning Point USA co-founder and CEO Charlie Kirk, untold numbers of law-abiding Americans, with good reason, are increasingly fearful.
Gun permit applications have soared. And firearms-related stocks have surged as investors have anticipated the shooting would fuel demand for stricter gun control laws by Democrat lawmakers.
The U.S. Postal Service declined to comment on the ruling, and the Department of Justice has not yet made a statement as of this writing.
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