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“Conservative 5th Circuit appeals court ruled longstanding federal ban on handgun sales to people between the ages of 18 and 20 violates the Second Amendment, pushing the question of age limits for handguns one step closer to the Supreme Court”

nytimes.com/2025/01/30/us/appe

A three-judge panel rejected the government’s arguments that firearm sales to those between the ages of 18-20 had been restricted in similar ways in 18th- and 19th-century America.
The New York Times · Appeals Court Strikes Down Federal Ban on Handgun Sales to TeenagersBy Mattathias Schwartz

@GottaLaff Why the fuck überhaupt (sorry for the german word) do you need a gun anyway ? I guess it's just a sick U.S. habit ? ?

@WillyECoyote69 @GottaLaff

Gun ubiquity is absolutely a uniquely American problem.

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Eventually someone will argue that every baby should be issued with a loaded gun as soon as they are born. Obviously with a hair trigger because they aren't very strong.

@GottaLaff - seems to me we need to define a single (admittedly partially arbitrary) age when "legal adulthood" starts in this nation. At this point that is kind of all over the place. e.g. 18 to vote and be drafted, 21 to drink alcohol and own a hand gun. Maybe 19 makes a decent compromise for all this?

@GottaLaff Current #SCOTUS will approve the sale of handguns to the under fives - but only .22s. Giving an under 5 a .44 magnum would be dangerous, after all #sarcasm

@GottaLaff

Oh well, at least you need to be 21 before you can buy a bottle of Jack Daniels, right?

@airwhale Such high standards, that’s so them.

@GottaLaff fuck it....give em to kindergarteners....Darwin time...

@GottaLaff Funny how it's going to be okay for 18 year-olds to own handguns, but not get gender-affirming care. This may not go the way they'd like it to. 🤔

@mfennvt I hadn’t thought of that

@GottaLaff The 19 year-old age requirement is one of the things that stuck with me about that horrid anti-trans EO. Why 19?

@mfennvt between 18-20. From 18 up.

@GottaLaff The EO says "The term “child” or “children” means an individual or individuals under 19 years of age." I always thought the age of majority was 18 everywhere in the US. Apparently not.

@GottaLaff Of course, I had to go down that rabbit hole to find out more. 18 is the legal age in all states except for Alabama and Nebraska (19), and Mississippi (21). Huh.