A Massachusetts law preventing 18-to-20-year-olds from purchasing handguns and semiautomatic weapons is unconstitutional, the National Rifle Association of America and other Second Amendment groups allege in a lawsuit.
Plaintiff Mark Escher and firearms rights groups filed a lawsuit Feb. 14 to block regulators from enforcing a 2024 state law preventing young adults from obtaining a license to carry.
The state’s “expected justification for so severely restricting the rights of 18-to-20-year-olds is their age. But 18-to-20-year-olds are adults,” according to the complaint filed in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Colonel Geoffrey Noble, the superintendent of the ...
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