A U.S. appeals court ruled against a decades-old federal law that requires a prospective gun owner to be 21 years old to buy a gun. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans found that such a law violates the Second Amendment following a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that expanded gun rights.
The appeals court found that people between the ages of 18 and 20 should not be prohibited from buying guns. It said that the age group has the right to keep and bear arms.
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According to the organization Everytown Research and Policy, federal law requires a person to be 21 to buy a handgun from a licensed dealer and 18 to buy a long gun. There is an 18-year-old minimum for handgun purchases from unlicensed dealers and no minimum age for long guns.
Many states have raised the age. They bar handgun sales to people under 21 and long gun sales to those under 18. This is regardless of whether the purchase is from a dealer or an unlicensed seller.
