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Federal Judge Strikes Down Ban on Selling Handguns to Under-21-Year-Olds
Rebekah Farley
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May 15, 2023
Federal Judge Strikes Down Ban on Selling Handguns to Under-21-Year-Olds
A federal judge just struck down a ban on dealers selling handguns to 18- to 20-year-olds. Our Founding Fathers would be proud. As the former slave and civil rights advocate Frederick Douglass said, “A man’s rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box, and the cartridge box.”
MRCTV reported on May 11:
A federal judge [Robert E. Payne] in Virginia on Thursday struck down a federal ban against licensed firearms dealers selling handguns to 18-to-20-year-olds, saying the rule was “not consistent” with the Second Amendment…
The case had been brought by John Corey Fraser who, at 20 years old, had tried to by a handgun from a gun seller in May of 2022. Fraser was denied the sale thanks to a longstanding federal ban on licensed firearms dealers selling handguns to anyone under the age of 21, despite the legal age of adulthood being 18 and even though 18-to-20-year-olds are still legally able to purchase handguns in private sales.
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Ban on Selling Handguns to Under-21-Year-Olds
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