The Second Amendment Foundation is back in court pushing against the federal government’s latest attempt to limit the impact of a major victory won earlier this fall.
SAF and its partners have filed a new brief responding to the government’s effort to shrink the scope of the injunction against the U.S. Post Office carry ban, a ban a federal judge already ruled unconstitutional in September.
That ruling, issued by the Northern District of Texas, struck down the prohibition on carrying at post offices and on postal property, and barred the government from enforcing it against the plaintiffs, including SAF members.
Instead of accepting that decision, the government immediately moved to restrict the injunction to only a tiny sliver of individuals: the named plaintiffs and only those SAF and FPC members who were already verified members when the case was originally filed.
SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut called out the government’s strategy, noting that officials are “fighting tooth and nail to continue enforcing an unconstitutional law against as many people as possible.”
Kraut also pushed back on the DOJ’s claim that it would be “impossible” to tell who is covered by the injunction without a membership list.
As he put it, “If officials want to know if someone found to be carrying at a post office is a SAF member they can simply ask.”
SAF’s brief points out the obvious flaw in the government’s argument: if asking someone whether they’re covered by the injunction somehow counts as “enforcing” the ban, then no amount of member-identification info would fix the problem.
The government’s position, in other words, makes no practical sense.
The lawsuit, FPC v. Bondi, was filed in June 2024 and challenges the long-standing prohibition on carrying firearms in U.S. Post Offices and on postal property. SAF is joined by the Firearms Policy Coalition and two private citizens in the effort.
SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb emphasized that these cases are brought on behalf of all SAF members, and noted the nationwide impact of the ruling.
“A Federal District Judge has declared the law unconstitutional,” Gottlieb said, “and yet the government’s knee-jerk reaction is to continue enforcing it against as many Americans as possible. Decades of settled case law says that it’s wrong.”
SAF’s fight now centers on ensuring the court’s injunction protects everyone it was intended to—and preventing the government from rewriting the boundaries of a constitutional win.
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