Handgun-Sales Age Requirement Upheld by Court in NRA Suit

[ellisonz]

Handgun-Sales Age Requirement Upheld by Court in NRA Suit
By Laurel Brubaker Calkins - Apr 29, 2013 9:01 PM PT

April 30 (Bloomberg) -– A U.S. law that prohibits federally licensed dealers from selling handguns to buyers under the age of 21 was upheld by an appeals court in a lawsuit brought by the National Rifle Association.

The NRA sued the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in 2010 on claims the federal ban violated the constitutional rights of more than 11,000 NRA members who were 18 and older, though still younger than the federal minimum.

Government lawyers convinced a U.S. judge in Lubbock, Texas, that the ban didn’t violate younger NRA members’ Second Amendment right to bear arms or Fifth Amendment guarantee of equal protection. The U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans yesterday agreed in a 41-page revised opinion.

“Congress designed its scheme to solve a particular problem: violent crime associated with the trafficking of handguns from federal firearms licensees to young adults,” U.S. Circuit Judge Edward C. Prado wrote on behalf of the three- member appeals panel.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-30/handgun-sales-age-requirement-upheld-by-appeals-court.html

Maybe the NRA will try to go to their buddies Scalia, Thomas, and Alito to fight back against that mean judicial activist judge

[Hoyt]

1. Thanks appeals court. Just what we need are more immature kids carrying weapons.

Parents bring their kids up in the gun culture, even training them to shoot center mass. Glad the court told the NRA to go crawl back in their gun barrels.

[ellisonz]

2. The NRA is the organization for the right of an 18-year-old to own a handgun.

Must bring them joy in their black hearts. They are truly the organization of lunatics.

[Generic Other]

3. Judges with visions of drive-bys in their heads

Whatever. Glad they did it. There's too many guns.

I notice they lock up the spray paint in my craft store. You have to be 18 to graffiti a wall. You got plenty of time to go shoot something when you grow up.

It is time to stop this madness. The Appeals Court made a wise decision. Let's hope SCOTUS leaves it alone.

edited: for sounding stupid.