Fifth Circuit Finds Young Adult Gun Sale Ban Unconstitutional

A US appeals court panel ruled that federal provisions against the sale of handguns to adults aged 18 to 20 are unconstitutional.

“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,” Judge Edith Jones of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said in Thursday’s unanimous opinion. She was joined by Chief Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod and Senior Judge Rhesa Barksdale.

The decision overturned a prior ruling by the same court in favor of such handgun sale bans. The panel on ...