In layman’s terms: A federal judge expanded the class of people protected by a permanent injunction in the federal case challenging a ban on carrying firearms at a post office.
On Tuesday, March 17, Chief United States District Judge Reed O’Connor rejected the Bondi Justice Department’s request to narrow the scope of the permanent injunction in the Post Office carry ban case, and instead expanded it dramatically.
In October 2025, the Bondi DOJ argued that the injunctive relief should be limited only to individuals who were members of Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) as of June 18, 2024 – the date the complaint was filed.
The DOJ’s legal argument was that by employing “associational standing,” “…any organization could evade the Supreme Court’s prohibition of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. CASA…”
Judge O’Connor’s four-page order rejects this argument and explicitly extends the injunction’s protections “…to Plaintiffs and to all present and future members of Firearms Policy Coalition, Inc. and Second Amendment Foundation.”
He laid out his reasoning:
In crafting its injunction, the Court was mindful of the Supreme Court’s ruling in CASA. But the Court intended its injunction to “inure to the benefit of those members of the association actually injured.” Not including future members could cause FPC and SAF’s injunctive relief to disappear due to attrition or death of their members or impose a significant burden on the organizations to track which members qualify for injunctive relief and which do not.
Second Amendment scholar and attorney Mark Smith, host of the Four Boxes Diner YouTube channel, observed, “There does NOT appear to be any geographic limits of scope of relief to members.” The takeaway for those reading this article is that there has never been a better time to become a member of either or both organizations, no matter what part of the country you live in.
In an unrelated case, the Bondi DOJ acknowledged in January that the Post Office ban on mailing firearms violates the Second Amendment.
