Three states say they will stand up for gun-control laws that the Trump administration will no longer defend and fight the shipment of firearms through the mail.
The attorneys general of New York, New Jersey and Delaware want to intervene in a Pennsylvania federal court case that challenges the prohibition of mailing guns through the U.S. Postal Service. The AGs said in a brief last Monday that their involvement is needed because the federal government will no longer defend the law.
Allowing citizens to transport firearms through the mail would impair states from enforcing their own safety laws, they say.
“Those interests are no longer represented by the Federal Defendants, which no longer offers any defense of this critical public safety law on the merits, based on their unprecedented determination that this longstanding federal statute is unconstitutional, at least in certain applications,” their motion says.
Bonita Shreve and Gun Owners of America sued the U.S. Postal Service July 14 in Johnstown. Shreve, of Blair County, has no intention of making the three-hour drive to her father in eastern Pennsylvania to deliver a handgun.
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