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In a recent article, I talked about cloning pro-abortion states’ “Shield Laws” in the context of ammunition. The basic idea is that if pro-abortion states get to undermine anti-abortion states’ laws by shipping abortion pills, why shouldn’t pro-Second Amendment states copy the idea and undermine the unconstitutional laws of anti-Second Amendment states by shipping ammunition?
Unfortunately,thereareseveralwrinklesthatpreventadirectcopy-pasteofabortion“ShieldLaws”,thebiggestbeingfederallawsthatregulaterestrictinterstatecommerceinfirearmsandammunition.
Unlikeabortionpills,atthefederallevel,youcannotbuyorsellgunsininterstatecommercewithoutaFederalFirearmsLicensee(FFL)asanintermediary.Thisisn’ttrueforammunition,sotheoretically,thelawsofanti-SecondAmendmentstatescanbeunderminedusingpro-abortionstates’tactics.
However,abortionpills(exceptpromotionalsamples)canbeshippedviatheUnitedStatesPostalService(USPS),whereasfederallawprohibitstheshippingofammunitionviaUSPS.
TheUSPSisawarethatabortionpillscanbeshippedtostatesthatres
