With all the winning we've been up to recently, I didn't expect a major win for the Second Amendment to just come flying out of nowhere.
BUT HERE IT IS 😤
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a decades-old ban on federally licensed firearms dealers selling handguns to people aged 18, 19 and 20 is unconstitutional.
In a unanimous ruling, the three-judge panel on the New Orleans-based 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals slammed the Biden administration's attempt to argue that the handgun ban was in line with the 'nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation' — a test for gun laws set by the Supreme Court's landmark 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen.
Let's just take a minute here to consider what a blessing that Bruen decision is. For years now, it's been handing us win after win on gun ownership (including on the handgun issue).
Consider one of the cases from 2023 that led to this decision by the appeals court:
And more:
Bruen, as noted above, ordered that firearm regulations be consistent with the United States's "historical tradition of firearm regulation." And that's just what the federal court directed in this most recent case:
'Ultimately, the text of the Second Amendment includes eighteen-to-twenty-year-old individuals among "the people" whose right to keep and bear arms is protected,' the opinion authored by Judge Edith Jones stated.
'The federal government has presented scant evidence that eighteen-to-twenty-year-olds' firearm rights during the founding-era were restricted in a similar manner to the contemporary federal handgun purchase ban, and its 19th century evidence "cannot provide much insight into the meaning of the Second Amendment when it contradicts earlier evidence,'" added Jones, nominated to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan.
A ruling so hot you can barely hold it!
Gun advocates called the decision "yet another critical [win] against an immoral and unconstitutional age-based gun ban."
That's one way to put it!
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