Government Throws in Towel on Defending Post Office Gun Ban

The U.S. Justice Department this week signaled it would no longer defend against a challenge to the federal ban on firearm possession, storage, and carry at U.S. Post Offices.

The government filed a motion with the U.S. Fifth Circuit in New Orleans to voluntarily dismiss its appeal of FPC v. Blanche, a gun rights group’s victory against the post office gun ban. A lower court in Oct. 2025 found the ban unconstitutional, citing that the first mail service in America was established in 1639, but the USPS waited until 1972 to specifically prohibit firearms on postal property.

Until this week, the government was still doggedly standing by the ban on appeal.

“The Trump DOJ spent far too long defending an immoral and unconstitutional ban that treated peaceable Americans like criminals,” said FPC President Brandon Combs in a statement. “Now, after losing on the merits and failing to gut the relief protecting our members, the government is finally waving the white flag. Good.”

For now, the victory in FPC v. Blanche protects members of the FPC and the Second Amendment Foundation, pending further challenges, rulings, and possible repeal of the ban by the USPS.