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.”
With all of the DEI and criminal hires, this is a bad idea. An Uzi automatic machine gun just disappeared in Detroit, of all places. It was sent registered and they still don’t know who took it and how. If a registered disappears and they can’t find it, the system is flawed. Detroit is a great place to lose a machine gun, let’s hope they find it before someone gets killed.