GOA Sues USPS Over Handgun Mailing Ban

Gun Owners of America (GOA) and Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) have teamed up with Pennsylvania resident Bonita Shreve to take on a dusty old law that’s still trampling gun rights in 2025.

In a new federal lawsuit, the group is challenging the nearly century-old ban on mailing handguns through the U.S. Postal Service — a ban they say has no basis in the Constitution or American history.

Since 1927, everyday citizens have been barred from shipping handguns through USPS. Meanwhile, the government and big-name businesses? They get a pass.

GOA says this is a classic case of “rules for me, not for thee” — and they’ve had enough.

“This complaint demonstrates that the federal government’s Prohibition-era ban on mailing handguns violates the Second Amendment,” said Erich Pratt, GOA’s Senior VP. “We are committed to ending all anti-gun ‘rules for me, but not for thee,’ in any form they may take.”

The complaint argues the ban is “inconsistent with Founding-era historical tradition,” which is the new legal standard under Bruen. And GOA’s making it clear — this law is not just outdated, it’s discriminatory and unconstitutional.

Sam Paredes, speaking for the GOF board, added,

“This law was passed in a different time… In America, using the Postal Service to mail handguns to other law-abiding individuals should not be a felony.”

The lawsuit not only takes aim at the USPS policy but at the idea that the government can continue to apply different rules to itself than to citizens — especially when it comes to a right as fundamental as self-defense.

Stay tuned. If GOA succeeds, the mailbox might finally be open to the “quintessential self-defense weapon.”

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