Mail-a-handgun: Trump administration pushes to allow firearms to be delivered by USPS
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The Trump administration is pushing the Unites States Postal Service to allow people to send concealable handguns in the mail after the Department of Justice declared a 99-year-old ban on the practice unconstitutional.California Atty.
Gen.Rob Bonta is calling the proposed mail-a-handgun policy a “dangerous loophole” that threatens to undermine state gun control laws and enable weapons trafficking.
Under the proposed change outlined by the USPS last month, revolvers and other handguns would be reclassified as mailable firearms and subject to the same rules that currently apply to long-barreled rifles and shotguns — namely that they are shipped unloaded and securely packaged.Politics Trump lawyers say the California law should be struck down for violating the 2nd Amendment.The Golden State is not alone in its rebuke of the policy proposal.
This week, Bonta joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general from mainly Democratic states submitting a comment letter to the Postal Service outlining their opposition.“Once again, the Trump Administration is recklessly disregarding the safety of the people it is sworn to serve,” Bonta said in a statement.
“We cannot ignore the dangerous consequences of this proposed rule, which could open the door for prohibited individuals to obtain weapons without background checks or regard for state firearms laws.”The USPS said it would review all public comments before finalizing any policy change.Congress banned members of the public from mailing concealable firearms in 1927, but in January the Department of Justice issued an opinion siding with a challenge filed by gun rights groups and declared the federal law unconstitutional.“So long as Congress chooses to run a parcel service, the Second Amendment precludes it from refusing to ship constitutionally protected firearms to and from law-abiding citizens, even if they are not licensed ma...