After more than twenty years of covering the Second Amendment debate in the United States, one of the conclusions that I’ve drawn is that while pro-2A advocates generally want people to be educated about firearms and gun policy, the gun control lobby generally wants folks to be as ignorant as possible.
A great example of this is a recent post by Brady’s Kris Brown on Bluesky, where she claimed “while this administration distracts you with a ballroom and an ICE rebrand, they’re also working overtime to flood communities with guns.”
Their latest? Letting guns be shipped through the mail. It’s reckless, it’s dangerous, and it will cost lives.
Join us in telling the USPS NO to guns by mail.
Based on that comment, you’d think that the U.S. Postal Service is about to reverse hundreds of years of precedent. And I’m sure that the vast majority of Brown’s followers are completely unaware that you can already ship some firearms through the mail. What the USPS is proposing is allowing handguns to be shipped as well.
Clicking on the link that Brown provided in her Bluesky post takes you to a Brady page that declares:
For almost a century, Congress has banned the general public from using the United States Postal Service (USPS) to mail handguns. This is a common-sense safeguard to prevent firearm trafficking, theft, and the shipment of firearms to individuals who are legally prohibited from possessing them.
Now, after the Department of Justice unilaterally decided this law is unconstitutional, the USPS is considering a rule that would change this, allowing the general public to ship handguns through everyday mail, needlessly endangering postal workers and the public alike. Use the form below to submit a public comment to USPS urging them to reject this dangerous proposal!
Clearly Brown is well aware of the current rule, so why does her post on Bluesky refer to firearms in general and not just handguns? Because her goal isn’t to inform her audience of the facts. It’s to drum up fear.
Even the Brady landing page is woefully short on facts. Under current postal regulations, those wishing to mail long guns must use packaging that doesn’t indicate there’s a firearm inside. They must use the USPS registered mail system, which allows the package to be tracked and requires a signature upon delivery. Interstate shipment of firearms is generally prohibited, unless you’re mailing the firearm to an FFL or to yourself.
Did the DOJ “unilaterally” decide the law is unconstitutional? Sure, just as the ATF “unilaterally” decided a few years ago that bump stocks are machine guns. The opinion from DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel, however, provides plenty of valid reasons why the statute doesn’t fit within the historical tradition of firearms regulation in the U.S., though, and it’s conclusion that since the Postal Service “routinely transports handguns between authorized shippers and recipients,” it cannot give unfavorable treatment to the mailing of handguns by ordinary citizens. As the OLC concluded: “We do not think the Second Amendment allows Congress to use its postal power for the purpose of suppressing traffic in constitutionally protected arms.”
The USPS is simply proposing to treat handguns the same way it already treats the shipment of long guns; a practice that Brady hasn’t complained about before. There is no valid reason for Brown or any other gun control advocate to pitch a fit over the USPS proposal. Her histrionics are nothing more than political theater and a fundraising pitch. Sadly, from what I’ve seen from the average Bluesky user, it may prove to be a lucrative bit of misinformation for the anti-gun group.
Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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