Holy s**t, John.
Just 10 days into the Trump presidency and they are arming teenagers!
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just rolled back a DECADES-OLD ban on federally licensed firearms dealers selling handguns to adults under 21.
It’s the first time a federal appeals court has held that this prohibition violates the Second Amendment. This is really bad.
The same court previously upheld this ban in 2012. But this is what happens when NRA-backed extremists take the bench. It all started with the absurd and deadly SCOTUS decision in NYSRPA v. Bruen, which established a new test for assessing guns: Is there a similar law that was in existence hundreds of years ago? You know, when women couldn't vote and slavery was legal?
What happens next? Minimum age laws in 5th Circuit states—Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas—will no longer be effective.
These states already have some of THE HIGHEST rates of gun deaths, with Mississippi at number one in the U.S., and Louisiana at number two. And we KNOW that minimum age laws save lives.
We don’t know if this case will go to the Supreme Court, but we can certainly expect movement, and we need to be worried, John.
We’re up against a 6-3 conservative SCOTUS, meaning we NEED to fight like hell to ensure that the decision by the Fifth Circuit gets overturned.
Onwards,
March For Our Lives
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