Trump Administration moves to allow USPS to transport guns through the mail.

[Morbius]

What could go wrong?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/usps-proposal-allow-handguns-sent-015031754.html

Handguns could be mailed through the U.S. Postal Service for the first time in nearly 100 years if a proposed rule under the Trump administration takes effect. Democratic attorneys general in two dozen states sent a letter this week in opposition.

In 1927, Congress passed a law barring the USPS from mailing concealable firearms unless they were from licensed dealers in an effort to curb crime. In January, the Department of Justice revisited the 1927 law, calling it unconstitutional and arguing that it violated the Second Amendment, and urged the postal service to change its regulations.

The Justice Department said that as long as Congress chooses to run a parcel service, "the Second Amendment precludes it from refusing to ship constitutionally protected firearms to and from law-abiding citizens, even if they are not licensed manufacturers or dealers."

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Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat who is running for governor, said the rule change would undo the work states like Nevada have done to curb gun violence. Nevada experienced the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, when a gunman on Oct. 1, 2017, opened fire from the Mandalay Bay casino hotel in Las Vegas, killing 60 people. Following the shooting, Nevada passed a law requiring state-administered background checks on most private gun sales or transfers.

"Our state has suffered enough, and to suggest we make it easier for criminals and abusers to access firearms is a slap in the face to gun violence survivors and law enforcement," Ford said in a statement.

Because in America there just aren't enough people getting shot.

[hlthe2b]

1. Are they going to inspect the packing to ensure the guns are NOT LOADED?

"Everyone knows better than to send a loaded gun through the mail," some will say. REALLY? Because we NEVER hear about accidents with LOADED WEAPONS, now do we?

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Are gun PARTS currently allowed to be sent via USPS?

Stuff like silencers and turning rifles into semi-automatic weapons?

[Morbius]

3. I don't know.

Personally, I am not into guns. I would suspect not, but I am no expert on this. I just think that allowing guns to be sent through the mail helps folks who want to get guns without going through a background check, and probably will result in more people getting shot. That what guns are for, after all; Kurt Vonnegut wrote that a gun was a machine for putting holes in people.

[jmowreader]

7. Most of them, yes, but not those parts

Current law says a gun cannot be shipped through the mail, but a "gun part" can be.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - which sounds like the name of a Wyoming convenience store - says a "gun" is the part of the gun with the serial number on it.

If you have an AR-15 or other Modern Sporting Rifle/"black gun"/assault rifle, the serialized component is the lower receiver casting.

An automatic pistol's "gun" is the frame, which is the part that features the handgrip.

A popular hobby in the shooting sports is to buy an AR-15 lower receiver casting from a gun store, then assemble the weapon from parts you chose individually.

However! "Stuff like silencers" are National Firearms Act items, "Class III weapons" or "Title II weapons." They fall into the same legal framework as machine guns, except that there's a law that set an end date for manufacture of machine guns transferrable to civilians and new suppressors are legally made every day. Parts to turn rifles into full-auto weapons are themselves considered machine guns, and the only way you can legally possess or transfer one is if it was installed into a rifle before the May 1986 cut-off date.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. TY

[Happy Hoosier]

10. Parts, yes , but the stuff you mentioned doesn't make sense.

Sounds suppressors are controlled items and generally cannot be mailed except to/from a licensed dealer/manufacturer or the registered owner (for repair). The prcess of selling one to someone else requires a lot of paperwork and time.

The part of the gun with a serial number is legally "the gun." All the rest of the parts are just parts and legal to buy, sell, mail.

You can't easily convert a manual action rifle into a semi-automatic, though semi-automatics are easy and cheapish ot get. Did mean a semi-automatic into an automatic? Parts that do that are illegal, or subject to heavy regulation. BUT.... there is an easily available part for AR-15's that turn them in to autpomatic weapons in all but name. They TECHNICALLY do not meet the definition of a machine gun... but they are a machine gun for all practical purposes.

[choie]

4. It is incomprehensible

(As most things are with trump) that a man who has allegedly survived a couple of assassination attempts with the use of guns continues to do all he can to promote gun violence.

[SSJVegeta]

5. No mail ballots! But guns are okay....

[purr-rat beauty]

6. Votes bad....guns good

Making America safe again one fucking stupid decision after another

[The Madcap]

9. Amazon gains yet another shopping category.

Just be careful buying your firearms from Temu.

[Hey Joe]

11. Because these lunatics want more dead

Americans, that’s why.
Everything they do screams that out loud and clear! EVERYTHING
More money for the.1%
More broke, desperate and dead citizens, that to them are just useless eaters.
This excuse for a government is nothing more than pure evil wrapped in money.

[Wounded Bear]

12. IIRC, Pres Kennedy was shot with a mail order rifle...

[Emile]

13. and voting by mail is bad . . .

Trump's idea of making America Great sucks.