The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed a brief challenging the federal government’s attempt to restrict the enforcement of a court-ordered injunction against the U.S. Post Office firearm carry ban.
In September, the Northern District of Texas declared the ban on carrying firearms on post office property unconstitutional in a lawsuit brought by SAF and the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC). It issued an injunction preventing its enforcement against the plaintiffs, including SAF members.
In response to the ruling, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion seeking to limit the scope of the injunction.
The government argues that the protection should extend only to the two named individual plaintiffs and to SAF and FPC members who were identifiable and verified as members at the time the complaint was originally filed in June 2024.
“The critical thing to remember here is that the government is fighting tooth and nail to continue enforcing an unconstitutional law against as many people as possible,” said SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut. Kraut dismissed the DOJ’s argument that knowing who is protected by the injunction would be “impossible” without a verified membership list.
The brief filed by the organizations states that if the government considers “merely asking” whether an individual is covered by the injunction to be an act of “enforcing” the ban, then no amount of information provided by the plaintiffs would ever satisfy them.
“The carry ban on U.S. Post Office property affects countless peaceable citizens nationwide who visit post offices every day to conduct their business,” SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb said. “A Federal District Judge has declared the law unconstitutional, and yet the government’s knee-jerk reaction is to continue enforcing it against as many Americans as possible. Decades of settled case law says that it’s wrong.”
The groups are demanding that the injunction remain broad enough to protect all current and future members of SAF and FPC from enforcement of the unconstitutional ban.
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