The United States may ban federally licensed firearms dealers from
selling handguns to people under age 21, an appeals court ruled on
Thursday, in a defeat for the National Rifle Association.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Houston rejected the NRA’s
argument that 18- to 20-year-olds had a right to buy the guns under the
Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as the equal
protection clause of the Fifth Amendment.
A unanimous three-judge panel said Congress, in a law dating from
1968, adopted the sales ban to help curb violent crime. It also said
that the nation’s founders and 19th-century courts and commentators
believed that disarming specific groups did not trample on the right to
bear arms.
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