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babsbunny

(8,436 posts)
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 07:27 PM Oct 2012

Court upholds ban on handgun sales to people under 21

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-handguns-decisionbre89o1d1-20121025,0,1382003.story


Jonathan Stempel Reuters

1:09 p.m. CDT, October 25, 2012

(Reuters) - The United States may ban federally licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to people under age 21, an appeals court ruled on Thursday, in a defeat for the National Rifle Association.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Houston rejected the NRA's argument that 18- to 20-year-olds had a right to buy the guns under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment.
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