NRA asks Supreme Court to lift ban on handgun sales to teens

[babylonsister]

NRA asks Supreme Court to lift ban on handgun sales to teens
By Ben Goad - 08/07/13 02:22 PM ET


The National Rifle Association is asking the Supreme Court to strike down decades-old regulations prohibiting the sales of handguns to those under the age of 21.

The powerful gun lobby is challenging a lower federal court’s October ruling that upheld the ban. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled that the current regulations are consistent with a long-held view that young adults between the ages of 18 and 20 “tend to be relatively immature and that denying them easy access to handguns would deter violent crime.”

“As with felons and the mentally ill, categorically restricting the presumptive Second Amendment rights of 18-to-20-year-olds does not violate the central concern of the Second Amendment,” the court found.

The court noted it is legal for adults under the age of 21 to buy other types of guns, including rifles and shotguns. Further, parents or guardians can give their 18 to 20-year-olds handguns as a gift, and there are no laws barring either the possession or use of a handgun by adults younger than 21.

Still, the law’s prohibition of commercial sales of handguns to young adults amounts to a “categorical burden on the fundamental right to keep and bear arms,” the NRA argued in its petition to the high court, filed last week.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/court-battles/315989-nra-asks-supreme-court-to-lift-ban-on-handgun-sales-to-teens

[Skittles]

1. the NRA wants everyone paranoid and armed

f*** them

[ananda]

2. I guess teens are the next big market that's not saturated.

Once all the teens have guns, I guess they'll go after children.

This reminds me of what happened with cigarettes.

[darkangel218]

3. Im a gun owner, but fuck NRA! theyre pos psychos. nt

[nomorenomore08]

4. So lower the handgun-buying age, but leave the drinking age alone?

Some logic there...

[name not needed]

5. Yeah, that's just what we need.

[spanone]

6. the nra is out of it's gun loving fucking mind.

[babylonsister]

7. I agree. I couldn't even

believe they had the nerve to propose this.

[Mr. David]

8. NRA labelled as a terrorist organization and has no further rights.

Anyone with an NRA sticker on their vehicles will get a big fat surprise.

Supreme Court should permanently deny and re-interpret the Second Amendment as correctly defined. REGULATED MILITIA AND LEO'S ONLY.

Not whackadoodles or gun strokers.

[etherealtruth]

9. Deranged

(I have nothing else to say)

[indepat]

10. So Supreme Court had prohibited the sale of a handgun to Travon Martin, a minor, who was fatally

shot by an adult packing a legally-acquired handgun and there was no problem how that scenario played out in Florida. Looks to me like adults who pack a handgun have a license to kill unarmed minors in states with stand your ground laws. Wonder how the world has viewed this absurdity?

[ellisonz]

11. So why shouldn't a 17-year-old be able to tote?

[HeiressofBickworth]

12. Raging hormones and a gun

Now THERE's a plan only the NRA could love.