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| Texas judge rules law preventing adults under 21 from carrying handguns violates Second Amendment |
| 2022-08-27 |
| [FoxNews] Texas law violated the Second Amendment, which doesn't say anything about age restrictions, a judge ruled A Texas judge ruled that a state law preventing adults under 21 from carrying a handgun was unconstitutional. Carrying a handgun in Texas wasn’t a problem for gun-owning adults who had a license to do so. However, because the state didn’t hand out licenses for anyone under 21, legal handgun owners were prevented from carrying their firearms outside of their homes. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman ruled that the Second Amendment prevents restricting the rights of gun owners based on their age. "Based on the Second Amendment’s text, as informed by Founding-Era history and tradition, the Court concludes that the Second Amendment protects against this prohibition." Pittman wrote. "Texas’s statutory scheme must therefore be enjoined to the extent that law-abiding 18-to-20-year-olds are prohibited from applying for a license to carry a handgun." Two unnamed plaintiffs, an 18-year-old and a 20-year-old, along with the Firearms Policy Coalition, filed the lawsuit challenging Texas’ law in November. Pittman noted the Second Amendment doesn't contain any mention of age as a restriction, unlike other portions of the Constitution. "To start, the Second Amendment does not mention any sort of age restriction," he wrote. "This absence is notable—when the Framers meant to impose age restrictions, they did so expressly." Thursday’s ruling comes on the heels of a major victory for Second Amendment advocates in June when the Supreme Court struck down a restrictive New York law on issuing concealed carry licenses. Pittman’s ruling also builds on top of the permitless carry law in Texas that Gov. Greg Abbott signed last year. The state’s "constitutional carry" law allowed Texans over the age of 21 to carry handguns in public without a license. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #4 You need to be 21 to legally drink in America, but at 18 you can join the military, be charged as an adult with a crime, be sentenced to death and executed. But you can't defend yourself? Yeah, that makes no sense. Oh, if you are an illegal alien, you can claim to be a minor even if you are 30+ years old, and the authorities will go along with that. The "rules" are so far out all over the map as to be a sick joke. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-27 09:15 |
| #3 If a person is Old enough to: Vote, Marry, decide their gender, get an abortion, Serve in the Military,be drafted in time of war, enter into legal contracts for loans, obtain a CDL, and is considered an Adult. Why 21 for a pistol? Either void such contradicting laws or raise the age of Adulthood uniformly to 21. Think about it, a more matured 21-year-old voter/Solider/Husband/Wife and etc... |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-08-27 09:02 |
| #2 The age limit was probably a compromise made to bring some squishes along when the legislation was passed. Now that SCOTUS has eviscerated all the micromanagement of the 2A (in legal principle, anyway) what the squishes think or want is irrelevant. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-27 07:57 |
| #1 Your national government arms 18, 19, 20 year olds with semi-automatic weapons (even fully automatic weapons, even very large caliber weapons). What part of 'Militia' don't you grasp. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-08-27 07:34 |