{"id":38648,"date":"2025-11-20T12:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=38648"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:11:15","slug":"second-amendment-foundation-fights-government-effort-to-continue-enforcing-post-office-carry-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2025\/11\/20\/second-amendment-foundation-fights-government-effort-to-continue-enforcing-post-office-carry-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Amendment Foundation Fights Government Effort to Continue Enforcing Post Office Carry Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BELLEVUE, Wash. \u2014 Nov. 18, 2025 \u2014 The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have\u00a0filed a brief<\/a>\u00a0in response to the government\u2019s efforts to limit the scope of the injunction SAF obtained on behalf of its members in its U.S. Post Office carry ban challenge.<\/p>\n

In September, the Northern District of Texas ruled in favor of SAF and declared the carry ban on post office property unconstitutional, enjoining its enforcement against the plaintiffs, including SAF members. In response to the ruling, the government filed a motion to limit the scope of the injunction to only the named individual plaintiffs and to members of SAF and its partner organizations, but only to those who were members when the complaint was originally filed and who have been identified and verified.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe critical thing to remember here is that the government is fighting tooth and nail to continue enforcing an unconstitutional law against as many people as possible,\u201d said SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut. \u201cThe DOJ\u2019s position that it would be \u2018impossible\u2019 for it to know who was protected by the injunction without a membership list is just plain silly. If officials want to know if someone found to be carrying at a post office is a SAF member they can simply ask.\u201d<\/p>\n

As noted in the\u00a0brief<\/a>, \u201c\u2026if the Government believes that merely asking whether an individual is covered by the injunction is somehow \u201cenforcing\u201d the Post Office Ban, there is no amount of information about Plaintiffs or their members that Plaintiffs could give the Government that would render compliance possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Originally filed in June 2024, the lawsuit challenges the ban on carrying firearms in U.S. Post Offices and on postal property. SAF is joined in the case,\u00a0FPC v. Bondi<\/em>, by the Firearms Policy Coalition and two private citizens.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we file a case, we do so on behalf of all SAF members,\u201d said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. \u201cThe carry ban on U.S. Post Office property affects countless peaceable citizens nationwide who visit post offices every day to conduct their business. A Federal District Judge has declared the law unconstitutional, and yet the government\u2019s knee-jerk reaction is to continue enforcing it against as many Americans as possible. Decades of settled case law says that it\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BELLEVUE, Wash. \u2014 Nov. 18, 2025 \u2014 The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have\u00a0filed a brief\u00a0in response to the government\u2019s efforts to limit the scope of the injunction SAF obtained on behalf of its members in its U.S. Post Office carry ban challenge. In September, the Northern District of Texas ruled in favor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38651,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38648\/revisions\/38651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}