{"id":39513,"date":"2026-05-28T12:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=39513"},"modified":"2026-05-28T12:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:06:42","slug":"nra-files-lawsuit-challenging-post-office-carry-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2026\/05\/28\/nra-files-lawsuit-challenging-post-office-carry-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"NRA Files Lawsuit Challenging Post Office Carry Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NRA-ILA 5\/26\/26 &#8211; The National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of America, Gun Owners Foundation, and three NRA members today filed <a title=\"2026 NRA Hornbake Complaint\" href=\"https:\/\/shared.nrapvf.org\/sharedmedia\/1512191\/2026-nra-hornbake-complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a lawsuit<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20260526\/nra-files-lawsuit-challenging-post-office-carry-ban#_msocom_1\" name=\"_msoanchor_1\"><\/a>\u00a0challenging the federal prohibition on carrying firearms at United States Post Offices.<\/p>\n<p>Federal law prohibits knowingly possessing a firearm in a federal facility\u2014including a United States Post Office\u2014as well as carrying firearms on postal property. Violations are punishable by a fine, up to one year of imprisonment, or both.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint argues that the post office carry ban violates the Second Amendment under the Supreme Court\u2019s text-and-history test set forth in\u00a0<em>NYSRPA v. Bruen<\/em>. In\u00a0<em>Bruen<\/em>, the Court held that the Second Amendment protects the right to carry handguns publicly for self-defense and that firearm regulations must be consistent with the nation\u2019s historical tradition of firearm regulation.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit notes that although the first post office was established in 1639 and the Post Office Department was established by the Second Continental Congress in 1775, firearms were not prohibited in post offices until 1972. The complaint therefore contends that the post office carry ban contradicts the nation\u2019s historical tradition of firearm regulation and is thus unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The case,\u00a0<em>Hornbake v. Blanche<\/em>, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29060 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NRA-ILA 5\/26\/26 &#8211; The National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of America, Gun Owners Foundation, and three NRA members today filed a lawsuit\u00a0challenging the federal prohibition on carrying firearms at United States Post Offices. Federal law prohibits knowingly possessing a firearm in a federal facility\u2014including a United States Post Office\u2014as well as carrying firearms on postal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39513","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\/39513","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=39513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39516,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39513\/revisions\/39516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}