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« A brief timeline for Operation Gunwalker | Main | Reports of plans for abolition of BATF »

Challenge to 21 yr age limit for handguns denied

Posted by David Hardy · 30 September 2011 09:16 AM

Story here.

· Chicago aftermath

4 Comments

Rich | October 1, 2011 5:13 PM

The link does not appear to work - 404 error

Critic | October 1, 2011 5:57 PM

This appears to be the new link location:

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/entries/2011/09/29/lubbock_judge_dismisses_one_nr.html?cxntfid=blogs_postcards

You can also just Google for "lubbock judge dismisses"

Law Prof | October 2, 2011 5:15 PM

A law that allows possession but not legal acquisition should fail a rational basis test.

Not even a pack of gibbering monkeys (a hypothetical Congress) would come up with that.

Ken | October 2, 2011 11:16 PM

“The Court is of the opinion that the ban does not run afoul of the Second Amendment to the Constitution,” the ruling states. “The right to bear arms is enjoyed only by those not disqualified from the exercise of the Second Amendment rights.

“It is within the purview of Congress, not the courts, to weigh the relative policy considerations and to make decisions as to the age of the customer to whom those licensed by the federal government may sell handguns and handgun ammunition.”

So Congress is free to decide that persons over the age of 30 or under the age of 25 are disqualified from the rights guaranteed by the 1st, 4th or 5th Amendments, and it's up to Congress to make that sort of policy decision, not the courts to make that sort of decision? How about the 13th?