Federal ban on handgun sales for young adults cannot be enforced, DOJ finds

The federal government spent years enforcing a law its own lawyers now say breaks the Second Amendment.

The Justice Department concluded Friday that the federal government cannot criminally enforce a prohibition on licensed dealers selling handguns to law-abiding adults ages 18-20 because the restriction violates the Second Amendment. The department’s Office of Legal Counsel said in a 49-page opinion that young adults are among the people whose right to keep and bear […]

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