FL Beats NRA, Under 21 Purchase Ban Upheld By The Courts

[Miami_JBT]

Judge Mark Walker, in a 48-page ruling, rejected the NRA’s lawsuit that challenged the part of the 2018 gun control law that banned the sale of firearms to anyone under 21.

AG Ashley Moody, as well as Gov. Ron DeSantis, claimed they did not agree with this part of the law while they were campaigning for office in 2018.

But both had the State defend it even after they both took office.

Judge Walker’s ruling said the case “falls squarely in the middle of a constitutional no man’s land.” Walker said that precedent from previous cases handed down by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals means that the Second Amendment does not “protect the sale of firearms to 18-to-20 year olds.”

Judge Walker added that 18 to 20 year-old independent Floridians without parents could wind up having no access to guns: “Why should the 20-year-old single mother living on her own be unable to obtain a firearm for self-defense when a 20-year-old living with their parents can easily obtain one?”