NRA asks Supreme Court to lift ban on handgun sales to teens
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Source: The Hill
The National Rifle Association is asking the Supreme Court to strike down decades-old regulations prohibiting the sales of handguns to those under the age of 21.
The powerful gun lobby is challenging a lower federal courts October ruling that upheld the ban. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled that the current regulations are consistent with a long-held view that young adults between the ages of 18 and 20 tend to be relatively immature and that denying them easy access to handguns would deter violent crime.
As with felons and the mentally ill, categorically restricting the presumptive Second Amendment rights of 18-to-20-year-olds does not violate the central concern of the Second Amendment, the court found.
The court noted it is legal for adults under the age of 21 to buy other types of guns, including rifles and shotguns. Further, parents or guardians can give their 18 to 20-year-olds handguns as a gift, and there are no laws barring either the possession or use of a handgun by adults younger than 21.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/court-battles/315989-nra-asks-supreme-court-to-lift-ban-on-handgun-sales-to-teens
Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)of people getting shot in this country. Helping more teenagers get their hands on guns will help to alleviate this problem.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Auggie
(31,194 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)Lugal Zaggesi
(366 posts)can already give their kids all the guns they want - and they do:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/05/02/1953621/guns-for-kids/
BY ANNIE-ROSE STRASSER ON MAY 2, 2013
On Tuesday, a five-year-old Kentucky boy accidentally shot and killed his two-year-old sister with a gun hed been given as a birthday present. The weapon, a small rifle, was manufactured specifically for childrens use.
The boys weapon was a My First Rifle .22-caliber gun from Keystone Sporting Arms youth branch, Crickett. Cricketts website markets itself especially for youth shooters. The firearms come in several neon colors, and the website even has a kids corner featuring pictures of small children with guns:
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeha - "gun nut" genes vanishing from the gene pool, kid by kid.
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Wonder how many of these ten youngsters will make it to eighteen?
Lugal Zaggesi
(366 posts)especially that girl in the top/middle - pink kiddie rifle and grimace. Like a tiny Survivalist on her way to "Killing intruders with an icepick" class. Is she holding a well perforated target, or a homemade bomb?
They say an apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but I hope these apples fall, bounce, and roll down the hill, far, far away from that tree...
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)bowens43
(16,064 posts)with assholes like this running around dead kids just come with the scenery
sick bastards
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)two year olds should be able to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights too
AAO
(3,300 posts)Throw an Uzi in the incubator with them.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)jasond54231
(51 posts)That corrupt, rotten organization is a major contributor of the gun violence epidemic so prevalent in the US today. They should really be ashamed of themselves.