DOJ Office of Legal Counsel: Prohibition Against Mailing Handguns Violates Second Amendment

On Thursday, the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued an opinion indicating the ban against mailing handguns violates the Second Amendment.

The ban has been in place nearly 100 years.

In the opinion, the OLC pointed out:

In 1927, Congress declared ‘pistols, revolvers, and other firearms capable of being concealed on the person’ to be nonmailable…(codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. § 1715). With some exceptions not relevant here, those who deposit any such firearm in, or cause any such firearm to be delivered by, the mail face criminal sanction.

OLC added:

Although this statute does not prohibit the shipment of concealable firearms by private companies, major express services currently forbid all persons from shipping firearms, except for some federal firearms licensees that have private