Posted on 03/09/2023 4:52:35 AM PST by marktwain
On November 9th, 2021, the Firearms Policy Coalition filed a lawsuit against the State of Texas, titled, at the time, Andrews v. McCraw in the North District of Texas. From the complaint:
To be sure, Plaintiffs acknowledge that their facial challenge to Texas’s ban on public carry by 18-to-20-year-olds is foreclosed in this Court by National Rifle Association of America Rifle, Inc. v. McCraw, 719 F.3d 338 (5th Cir. 2013), but they believe that case was wrongly decided. They therefore institute this litigation to vindicate their Second Amendment rights and seek to have McCraw overruled by a court competent to do so. Even under McCraw, however, this Court can and should rule in favor of Plaintiffs’ as-applied claim with respect to 18-to-20-year-old women asserted by Plaintiffs Blakey and FPC on behalf of its similarly situated members.
Opinion and Order of the court District Court Northern District of Texas Judge Mark T Pittman:
The issue is whether prohibiting law-abiding 18-to-20-year-olds from carrying a handgun in public for self-defense is consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. Based on the Second Amendment’s text, as informed by Founding-Era history and tradition, the Court concludes that the Second Amendment protects against this prohibition. Texas’s statutory scheme must therefore be enjoined to the extent that law-abiding 18-to-20-year-olds are prohibited from applying for a license to carry a handgun.
On September 22, 2022, the State of Texas appealed the case to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
On December 21, 2022, the State of Texas appeal was dismissed
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Why is it so hard to understand? If an 18 year old can be drafted and die for the government an 18 year old should absolutely have every right and privilege afforded to any other adult citizen!
I would sooner support raising the adult age and draft to 21 than any of this mishmash selective rights nonsense!
The dismissing and denigration of the Constitution has been ongoing for a hundred years and more.
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