A Pennsylvania woman wants to send her father a very special gift in the mail – a gun – and has gone to court to challenge the law preventing her from doing so.
Bonita Shreve and Gun Owners of America sued the U.S. Postal Service July 14 in Pittsburgh federal court. Shreve, of Blair County, has no intention of making the three-hour drive to her father in Eastern Pennsylvania to deliver a handgun.
Since she does not hold a Federal Firearms License, Shreve can’t send the gun through a private service like UPS, leaving the Post Office as her last option. But a 1927 law says she can’t, so nearly 100 years later its constitutionality its challenged in her lawsuit.
“(T)his vestigial regulation has outlived its Prohibition-era roots, having been enacted during a time with no other federal controls on the interstate sale or shipment of firearms on the books,” the lawsuit says.
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Author: Faith Novak
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