"Those interests are no longer represented by the Federal Defendants, which no longer offers any defense of this critical public safety law on the merits."
— AGs of New York, New Jersey, and Delaware, Monday brief

A Pennsylvania woman needs to get a handgun to her father across the state and her only legal option is a six-hour round trip — because she can't use USPS, UPS, or FedEx without an FFL involved. Three AGs from neighboring states think that's fine. Worth sitting with that for a second.

The Bruen analysis here is interesting. The 1927 law was written to slow mob gun shipments during Prohibition — not exactly the kind of historical tradition the Founders were encoding. Courts have been skeptical of exactly this kind of post-hoc "safety" justification when the actual history is "we were trying to slow Al Capone."

For anyone who's had to coordinate a transfer, you know how this plays out in practice — you're paying FFL fees and burning time for a transaction that should be as simple as shipping a rifle scope. The law isn't stopping bad actors. It's just adding friction for people doing everything right.

Have you ever had a transfer situation where the shipping restrictions made a simple transaction into a whole production — and how'd you end up handling it?

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