A trio of Democratic states is asking a judge to let them defend a federal law barring the U.S. Postal Service from shipping guns, after the Trump administration said it would not defend the statute in an open lawsuit.
The Justice Department announced in a filing earlier this year in a lawsuit brought against USPS that it would not defend a 1927 federal law banning handguns from being shipped by the USPS, citing the department’s Jan. 15 legal opinion that the law is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.
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