Posted July 3, 2019 2:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Michael Conroy

California is one of a handful of states that decided to make it illegal for an 18-year-old to exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms in the wake of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The thinking, if you can call it that, is that by banning people under 21 from buying a gun, we will be able to prevent some percentage of mass shootings.

Of course, since most mass shootings committed by people under 21 are carried out with stolen guns anyway, don’t expect such laws to make the least little difference.

Anyway, California passed the law. So did some other states, most notably Florida.

Now, a lawsuit has been filed challenging the law.

Second Amendment right groups sued the state of California Monday over the new law banning the sale of firearms to people under the age of 21.

The groups, the Calguns Foundation and Firearms Policy Coalition, argued in a lawsuit filed in San Diego on behalf of individual gun owners that those 18 and over are adults and have a right to purchase a firearm.

“Once individuals turn eighteen, they are adults in the eyes of the …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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