The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a new rule that would allow people to mail handguns for the first time since 1927. As discussed below, the proposed rule also goes a step further and rolls back restrictions on mailing rifles and shotguns. If it goes into effect as proposed, the USPS rule would open up a new gun trafficking channel for illicit markets and make it significantly easier for guns to fall into the wrong hands.
The move comes after the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued a memorandum opinion in January declaring that a century-old federal law prohibiting people from mailing handguns and other concealable firearms through the USPS was unconstitutional and should no longer be enforced. The OLC also recommended that the USPS “modify its regulations to conform with this opinion.”
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