FPC Pushes Forward In Post Office Gun Ban Challenge

The Firearms Coverage Coalition (FPC) has filed a movement for abstract judgment in its case pending earlier than a U.S. District Court docket in Texas difficult the Put up Workplace gun ban.

The lawsuit FPC v. Garland challenges federal gun management legal guidelines prohibiting firearm possession, storage and carry at United States Put up Places of work and associated properties, together with put up workplace parking heaps. The plaintiffs are two law-abiding residents licensed to hold in Texas and two non-profit membership associations—FPC and the Second Modification Basis (SAF).

Brandon Combs, FPC president, stated the lawsuit is one in a protracted line of challenges designed to revive Second Modification rights.

“Your proper to hold weapons for armed self-defense doesn’t finish on the Put up Workplace,” Combs stated in a launch asserting the motion. “We stay up for eliminating this immoral ban and additional restoring the Folks’s proper and skill to guard themselves in public.”

In its movement for abstract judgment, plaintiffs argue that the put up workplace gun ban fails each of the requirements set by the Supreme Court docket in New York Rifle & Pistol Affiliation v. Bruen.

“The Carry Ban, to the extent it bars the possession and carriage of firearms in put up workplaces and on postal property, infringes their Second Modification rights and should be declared unconstitutional and enjoined,” the movement argues. “Bruen reaffirms that any Second Modification regulation is constitutional provided that the federal government ‘display[s] that [it] is in keeping with this Nation’s historic custom of firearm regulation.’ However there isn’t any historic custom supporting the ban on lawful firearm carriage in put up workplaces and on postal property.”

Due to that, the transient additional argues that the federal government can not meet its burden of proving a historic precedent.

“The postal system dates to the Founding, however there isn’t any custom of banning firearms in Put up Places of work,” the transient states. “Quite the opposite, there’s a historic custom of defending the mail by way of materially completely different means.”

Ultimately, the movement argues that enforcement of the ban ought to be stopped instantly.

“For all these causes, this Court docket ought to grant Plaintiffs’ movement for abstract judgment and completely enjoin enforcement of the Carry Ban to the extent it bars the possession and carrying of firearms in U.S. Put up Places of work and on Postal Service postal property,” the transient concludes.

Federal gun legislation bans carrying firearms on a lot of its property, even in loos and customer facilities on nationwide lands, the place a firearm would possibly in any other case be permitted. Put up workplaces, their parking heaps—even the grounds round them—have all been designated gun-free zones the place being caught in possession of a firearm, even locked in your automobile as you walked inside, may end in fines and imprisonment.

In an analogous case earlier this 12 months, a federal choose in Florida dominated that the federal legislation banning folks from possessing weapons in put up workplaces or whereas on put up workplace property is unconstitutional, citing the landmark Bruen case wherein the U.S. Supreme Court docket affirmed the Second Modification proper to bear arms as a person proper and eliminated a bunch of obstacles many states had constructed to infringe upon these rights.