“The legal status of carrying guns at post offices and on postal property is currently unsettled following recent, separate federal court rulings. While the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) maintains a long-standing policy prohibiting firearms, these rulings have declared the ban unconstitutional for certain parties, based on the Supreme Court’s 2022 Bruen decision.”
Judge Reed O’Connor, a Chief United States District judge in the Fifth Circuit, has determined the ban on possession and carry of arms in common use in Post Offices and on property owned by the Post Office is an infringement on the rights protected by the Second Amendment. From the decision:
The Court determines that both 18 U.S.C. § 930(a) and 39 C.F.R. § 232.1(1) are inconsistent with the principles that underpin this Nation’s regulatory tradition. Thus, they are unconstitutional as-applied to carrying firearms inside a an ordinary post office or on post office property.
The decision was published on September 30, 2025, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division. The case is Firearms Policy Coalition Inc, et al., v. Pamela Bondi. The Second Amendment Foundation and two Texas citizens, Gavin Pate and George Mandry, were also parties to the lawsuit against the Federal government as represented by Pamela Bondi, United States Attorney General (AG). The original lawsuit was brought against Merrick Garland when he was AG on June 18, 2024.
By Dean Weingarten
