Judge Overturns US Ban on Handgun Purchases for 18-20 Year Olds

A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that the US government's prohibition on 18-to-20-year-olds buying handguns violates the Second Amendment and "cannot stand." The right to purchase a handgun falls under the right to "keep and bear arms," and young adults are among "the people" protected by the Second Amendment, Judge Robert E. Payne said. The government did not present any evidence supporting "age-based restrictions on the purchase or sale of firearms from the colonial era, Founding, or Early Republic," Payne said.