By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
The federal government has moved to voluntarily dismiss its appeal in a case which successfully challenged the ban on firearms carry in U.S. Post Offices, allowing the Second Amendment Foundation and Firearms Policy Coalition’s Sept. 2025 victory to stand.
In that case, previously known as FPC v. Bondi, U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor ruled the prohibition to be “unconstitutional under the Second Amendment with respect to Plaintiffs’ (and their members) possession and carrying of firearms inside of an ordinary United States Post Office or the surrounding Post Office property.”
But in a Thursday announcement, SAF stated, “The District Court went on to clarify that the injunction had nationwide effect. With the voluntary dismissal of the appeal, SAF’s win in the case stands, meaning all current and future SAF members will remain covered by the injunction moving forward.”
“This is huge news for SAF members,” said SAF Senior Director of Legal Operations Bill Sack in a SAF news release. “We now have finality and clarity that the hard-fought injunction we secured on behalf of our members, striking down the post office carry ban is the permanent outcome of the case. The government appears to now agree, especially in light of the recent Wolford decision, that the ban on the lawful carry of firearms in post offices fails constitutional muster.”
Originally filed in June 2024, the lawsuit challenges the ban on firearms carry in U.S. Post Offices and on postal property.
“The government rightly saw the writing on the wall that they were not going to win this case,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb. “We certainly appreciate the DOJ recognizing the facts and voluntarily dismissing their appeal. With this injunction in hand, SAF has once again fulfilled its mission of defending, securing and restoring the Second Amendment rights for its members as well as the public at large.”
Under Judge O’Connor’s September 2025 order, “An ordinary United States Post Office is defined as a United States Post Office that is not located inside of (1) a Military Base or similarly restricted access area, or (2) a Federally owned or leased building housing government functions other than a United States Post Office in which carrying a firearm would otherwise be prohibited.”
The government’s motion is just one more piece of evidence that the Trump administration is taking a fundamentally different position on Second Amendment rights than previous administrations.
