Florida’s 21-year age requirement for buying guns upheld in NRA suit

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Thursday upheld a Florida law barring people under age 21 from buying a gun, rejecting a challenge by the National Rifle Association gun rights lobby group. A unanimous three-judge panel of the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the law was in line with the historical tradition of gun regulation in the United States, meeting a new standard for gun control laws set by the U.S. Supreme Court last year. Florida passed the law in 2018 with bipartisan support three weeks after one of the state’s deadliest mass shootings…

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