RICHMOND, Va. — A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a law prohibiting certified federal guns dealerships from selling pistols to young grownups under 21 breaches the Second Amendment and is unconstitutional.
The judgment Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Payne in Richmond, if not reversed, would enable dealerships to sell pistols to 18- to 20-year-olds.
In his 71-page judgment, Payne composed that lotsof of the rights and duties of citizenship are approved at the age of 18, consistingof the right to vote, employ in the military without adult consent and serve on a federal jury.
“If the Court were to leaveout 18-to-20-year-olds from the Second Amendment’s security, it would enforce restrictions on the Second Amendment that do not exist with other constitutional assurances,” Payne composed.
“Because the statutes and guidelines in concern are not constant with our Nation’s history and custom, they, forthatreason, cannot stand,” he composed.
Payne’s judgment is the mostcurrent choice striking down weapon laws in the wake of a landmark Supreme Court judgment last year that altered the test courts have long utilized to assess obstacles to gun limitations. The Supreme Court stated judges needto no longer thinkabout whether the law serves public interests, like enhancing public security. Governments that desire to support a weapon constraint should appearance back into history to program it is constant with the nation’s “historical custom of gun policy,” the Supreme Court stated.
Amid turmoil in the months giventhat that judgment, courts have stated unconstitutional laws includ