Gun Owners of America (GOA) and Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) have teamed up with Pennsylvania resident Bonita Shreve to take on a dusty old law that’s still trampling gun rights in 2025.
In a new federal lawsuit, the group is challenging the nearly century-old ban on mailing handguns through the U.S. Postal Service — a ban they say has no basis in the Constitution or American history.
Since 1927, everyday citizens have been barred from shipping handguns through USPS. Meanwhile, the government and big-name businesses? They get a pass.
GOA says this is a classic case of “rules for me, not for thee” — and they’ve had enough.
“This complaint demonstrates that the federal government’s Prohibition-era ban on mailing handguns violates the Second Amendment,” said Erich Pratt, GOA’s Senior VP. “We are committed to ending all anti-gun ‘rules for me, but not for thee,’ in any form they may take.”
The complaint argues the ban is “inconsistent with Founding-era historical tradition,” which is the new legal standard under Bruen. And GOA’s making it clear — this law is not just outdated, it’s discriminatory and unconstitutional.
Sam Paredes, speaking for the GOF board, added,
“This law was passed in a different time… In America, using the Postal Service to mail handguns to other law-abiding individuals should not be a felony.”
The lawsuit not only takes aim at the USPS policy but at the idea that the government can continue to apply different rules to itself than to citizens — especially when it comes to a right as fundamental as self-defense.
Stay tuned. If GOA succeeds, the mailbox might finally be open to the “quintessential self-defense weapon.”
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