{"id":108760,"date":"2025-01-31T12:03:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T12:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/federal-appeals-court-strikes-down-ban-on-handgun-sales-to-teens\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:03:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T12:03:43","slug":"federal-appeals-court-strikes-down-ban-on-handgun-sales-to-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/federal-appeals-court-strikes-down-ban-on-handgun-sales-to-teens\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal appeals court strikes down ban on handgun sales to teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-31\/GETTYRF_81022_GunsTable.jpg\" alt><figcaption>(Emily Fennick \/ EyeEm\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; A federal appeals court on Thursday struck down a longstanding federal ban that prevented the sale of handguns to Americans between the ages of 18 and 20 \u2014 a landmark gun control regulation in place since 1968.<\/p>\n<p>The conservative Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the federal law banning handgun sales to teens is inconsistent with the nation&#8217;s historical tradition and violates the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>The decision cited the Supreme Court&#8217;s 2022 opinion by Clarence Thomas in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, which significantly expanded gun rights and threatens to rollback other gun safety laws nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, the text of the Second Amendment includes eighteen-to-twenty-year-old individuals among &#8216;the people&#8217; whose right to keep and bear arms is protected,&#8221; the court wrote in its opinion statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement went on, &#8220;The federal government has presented scant evidence that eighteen-to-twenty-year-olds\u2019 firearm rights during the founding-era were restricted in a similar manner to the contemporary federal handgun purchase ban, and its 19th century evidence &#8216;cannot provide much insight into the meaning of the Second Amendment when it contradicts earlier evidence.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The immediate nationwide impact of the ruling is unclear. The case is almost certainly bound for the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Handguns have been the most commonly used weapons in murders and mass shootings for decades in the United States, according to government data analyzed by The Violence Project.<\/p>\n<p>Last term, the Supreme Court upheld a longstanding federal law prohibiting the possession of firearms by people under domestic violence restraining orders.<\/p>\n<p>In the next few weeks, it will consider whether gun manufacturers can be held liable for violent crimes perpetrated by criminals who easily get the weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Emily Fennick \/ EyeEm\/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) &#8212; A federal appeals court on Thursday struck down a longstanding federal ban that prevented the sale of handguns to Americans between the ages of 18 and 20 \u2014 a landmark gun control regulation in place since 1968. The conservative Fifth Circuit U.S. Court<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/federal-appeals-court-strikes-down-ban-on-handgun-sales-to-teens\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}