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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Young Adults Have Constitutional Rights


Do 18 to 20-year-olds have constitutional rights?

They do, according to a unanimous ruling by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.

America's 1st Freedom posted:

A panel of judges at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a unanimous ruling, found that the federal ban on federal firearms licensees (FFLs) selling handguns to 18-to-20-year-old adults violates the Second Amendment.

In this ruling, the court noted that the “government argues that a limited ban on the purchase of handguns from FFLs is not an infringement on the Second Amendment rights, and in any event eighteen-to-twenty-year-olds are not among ‘the people.’” This panel of judges rejected this claim. The court next considered whether the government met its burden of historical analogues (under the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bruen decision). The court then found that the government had not found historical precedents to make this ban constitutional.

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