Florida Can Prohibit Gun Purchases by Those Under 21, Court Says

The Florida law that bans gun sales to people between 18 and 20 years old is constitutional, the Eleventh Circuit said Thursday.

“Tragically, under-21-year-old gunmen continue to intentionally target others—now, with disturbing regularity, in schools,” the court said. “But State governments have never been required to stand idly by and watch the carnage rage.”

The law is supported by the history and tradition of gun regulation in the US, the opinion by Judge Robin S. Rosenbaum said.

The law was adopted in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that was carried out by a ...