Federal Judge Rules Ban on Handgun Sales to 18-20 Year Olds Unconstitutional.

A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a law banning licensed federal firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under 21 violates the Second Amendment and is unconstitutional. The ruling would allow dealers to sell handguns to 18- to 20-year-olds. The judge cited the 2022 Supreme Court ruling repeatedly in his ruling, writing that the government failed to present “any evidence of age-based restrictions on the purchase or sale of firearms from the colonial era, Founding or Early Republic.”