Another federal court just handed gun owners a grim reminder that the swamp never sleeps.
In Elite Precision Customs v. ATF, the plaintiffs challenged one of the most absurd relics of Lyndon Johnson’s 1968 Gun Control Act — the federal ban on interstate handgun sales.
This rotten law says you can’t buy a handgun from a licensed dealer outside your home state unless it’s shipped through a dealer back home.
Translation: Washington bureaucrats decided long ago that you’re too untrustworthy to buy a pistol in Oklahoma if you live in Texas — even though it’s perfectly legal for you to own that same handgun in your home state.
The Court’s Decision
Rather than applying Bruen in full, the judge sidestepped it — declaring that the ban doesn’t even trigger Second Amendment scrutiny.
The court ruled that these restrictions are merely “reasonable commercial regulations,” claiming they don’t even implicate the plain text of the Second Amendment.
In doing so, the judge refused to apply the Bruen test at all — declaring that a ban preventing Texans from buying handguns across state lines is no constitutional problem so long as it’s a “modest inconvenience.”
Once again, the Department of Justice — now under Pam Bondi’s leadership — defended this unconstitutional relic instead of dismantling it, just like they recently did with Biden’s tyrannical “Engaged in the Business” rule, the backdoor gun registry cooked up by John Cornyn’s BSCA.
This is a complete betrayal of the Bruen standard, which makes clear that every modern restriction must be judged against the text and history of the Second Amendment.
Instead, the court just gave the DOJ a free pass to continue trampling on gun owners’ rights in the name of “modest inconvenience.”
And if that wasn’t enough, the DOJ is even defending the unconstitutional USPS gun ban, the very law a federal judge already struck down as leaving law-abiding Americans defenseless just for picking up their mail.
It’s a disturbing trend.
Bondi came into the Trump Administration swinging, but she’s quickly sliding back into the Bondi of old — the same one who consistently stabbed gun owners in the back as Florida’s AG by supporting red flag laws, refusing to stop local gun control ordinances, and siding with the establishment elite over the grassroots.
Now, instead of dismantling Biden’s anti-gun legacy, she’s preserving it — and in the process, kneecapping Trump’s pro-gun agenda.
And here’s the kicker: Trump himself may have run afoul of this very handgun sales ban in the past.
That means Bondi isn’t just attacking the Second Amendment — she’s attacking her boss. If she keeps this up, it’s only a matter of time before her loyalty is in question.
What’s Next?
This fight is expected to continue playing out in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals — where we have the best shot of striking down this unconstitutional relic once and for all.
And Texas Gun Rights isn’t sitting on the sidelines: we’re closely reviewing this case and preparing to file an amicus brief in support of FPC’s lawsuit.
Because if the courts won’t listen to the plain text of the Second Amendment, then the grassroots must make our voices heard loud and clear.
But this entire lawsuit proves why gun owners can’t blindly trust politicians, judges, or even “pro-gun” administrations to do the right thing.
Even the friendliest presidents need to be held accountable — because once they’re surrounded by establishment advisors and swamp lawyers, betrayal is always just one step away.
Bondi’s DOJ has chosen sides once again — and it’s not with you, me, or the Constitution.
Will you help Texas Gun Rights keep the pressure on Pam Bondi and her rogue DOJ — and ensure that ALL politicians and unelected bureaucrats are held accountable for their actions on the Second Amendment?
