WASHINGTON — While gun owners have enjoyed a resurgence of government actions actually protecting their Second Amendment rights under this administration, there is an increasing body of evidence that when Democrats return to power, they will launch an all-out assault on gun owners. Part of that evidence is on display in a recent bill from Rep. Haley Stevens (Democrat-MI-11).
H.R.9003, introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on May 21, would “prohibit the United States Postal Service from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing a proposed rule with respect to the mailing of pistols, revolvers, and other firearms capable of being concealed on the person.”
The measure has eight co-sponsors, all Democrats, and currently sits with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
The bill is a direct response to a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Post Office, which, in December of 2025, a federal judge enjoined the nearly 100-year-old ban on shipping “concealable firearms” – a ban that even the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel conceded that the ban was unconstitutional.
The reversal of the ban functionally changes nothing with regard to “public safety” concerns, given that private mail carriers already ship firearms, and all inter-state transfers still need to be conducted through federally-licensed firearms dealers with the appropriate background checks.
However, that didn’t stop liberal states, like New Jersey, from launching fear-based public relations campaigns earlier this month full of false statements in an effort to sway public opinion against the lifting of the prohibition.
The gun owner community is well aware of the possibility of a midterm election that could dramatically shift power to Democrats, and embolden them to push a plethora of gun control measures in opposition to the Constitution and Supreme Court precedent, just as they have done in recent months at the state level in New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Connecticut, to name a few examples.
In fact, Democrats openly showed their willingness to attack gun rights earlier this year in January when Senator Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) submitted an amendment to the minibus appropriations bill H.R. 6938, which would increase the tax on NFA-regulated items by 2354% to $4,709. Currently, the tax sits at zero dollars as a result of the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
News2A has written at length, warning that a future administration will reverse every pro-Second Amendment policy and gun owners should be making a plan for that eventuality.
Until then, we encourage readers to regularly visit our Department of Justice action tracker, which will catalogue every single legal measure related to Second Amendment rights.
