According to Firearm Chronicles
For years now, legal adults under the age of 21 haven’t been able to buy a handgun. While that’s a problem, it wasn’t an overly pressing one in a lot of ways. After all, those same adults could buy pretty much any longarm they wanted. Shotguns, AR-15s, hunting rifles, whatever was still available to them. For many, that was good enough for the time being.
But then Parkland happened. A 19-year-old (alleged) psychopath walked into his former high school and started shooting up the place. Since he used a long gun in the deed, people started freaking out. Nevermind the millions of law-abiding gun owners under the age of 21 who did absolutely nothing wrong, this one guy did something and it was time to eliminate the Second Amendment rights of countless young Americans.
Surprisingly, Florida was acted swiftly and stupidly to do just that.
Needless to say, that sparked a lawsuit. Now, that lawsuit has cleared a major hurdle.
A federal judge has refused to dismiss the National Rifle Association’s challenge to a 2018 state law that blocked people under age 21 from buying guns.
Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office argued that Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker should dismiss the case, which challenges a law that the Legislature and then-Gov. Rick Scott approved after a gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
But Walker, in an eight-page decision Friday, denied the state’s request to dismiss the case, which is scheduled to go to trial in January. Walker made clear that he was not ruling on the NRA’s underlying arguments that the law violates constitutional Second Amendment and equal-protection rights — only that the case should be allowed to move forward.