Will protect lawful firearm shipping by prohibiting common carriers from restricting firearm shipments by Federal Firearms Licensees and by repealing the federal prohibition on mailing handguns through the U.S. Postal Service.
Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.
Occurrences
Rep. Lauren Boebert (CO-04), Co-Chair of the Congressional Second Amendment Caucus, introduced HR 9979 the Freedom to Ship Act, landmark legislation to protect the right of responsible Americans to lawfully ship firearms via common carriers. The bill also repeals the prohibition on mailing handguns through the United States Postal Service.
Boebert introduced the Freedom to Ship Act to bar common-carrier restrictions on lawful firearm shipping and repeal the USPS handgun mailing ban.
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Last Action Date Listed
July 30, 2026
Action
Ms. Boebert ... introduced the following bill; which was referred
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): GovInfo records Boebert's Freedom to Ship Act as introduced and referred to House committees, with no enacted/public-law status shown in the bill version record.
A motor carrier shall not interfere with the lawful transportation of firearms, ammunition, or component parts of a firearm or ammunition
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The introduced bill text directly addresses the common-carrier firearm-shipping restriction part of the commitment, but only as proposed legislation.
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Section 1715 of chapter 83 of title 18, United States Code ... is repealed.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The bill includes the promised statutory repeal of the handgun-mailing prohibition, but the text is still introduced bill language rather than enacted law.
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Text contains those laws in effect on September 11, 2026
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The current U.S. Code page was updated within the lookback window and still contains 18 U.S.C. 1715, indicating the statutory prohibition had not been repealed by September 11, 2026.
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Pistols, revolvers, and other firearms capable of being concealed on the person are nonmailable
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The operative federal handgun-mailing prohibition remained in the U.S. Code during the lookback window, so the repeal element was not delivered as of the refresh date.
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ACTION:
Proposed rule.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): USPS had a proposed rule related to handgun mailability, but the Federal Register record identified it as proposed rather than final; it also did not repeal the underlying statute or address the common-carrier provisions.