Good day all. Since the Bruen Decision, a number of gun control cases have been sent back to the lower courts, and new ones are being filed. Last week, a Judge in Texas threw out a law that prevented adults 18-21 from being able to carry handguns.
Recently, Texas has been moving to full constitutional carry, but one group has been left out. People between the ages of 18-20. These people are considered legally adults in the eyes of the law, but Texas chose to deny them their right to keep and bear arms, in this case, pistols. This has now been ruled unconstitutional. Here are the details from Fox News:
A Texas judge ruled that a state law preventing adults under 21 from carrying a handgun was unconstitutional.
Carrying a handgun in Texas wasn’t a problem for gun-owning adults who had a license to do so. However, because the state didn’t hand out licenses for anyone under 21, legal handgun owners were prevented from carrying their firearms outside of their homes.
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman ruled that the Second Amendment prevents restricting the rights of gun owners based on their age.
“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.” Pittman wrote. “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.”
Pittman noted the Second Amendment doesn’t contain any mention of age as a restriction, unlike other portions of the Constitution.
Nope, it doesn’t.
“To start, the Second Amendment does not mention any sort of age restriction,” he wrote. “This absence is notable—when the Framers meant to impose age restrictions, they did so expressly.”
Yes, yet another of those pesky little details that the Progressives despise.
Pittman’s ruling also builds on top of the permitless carry law in Texas that Gov. Greg Abbott signed last year. The state’s “constitutional carry” law allowed Texans over the age of 21 to carry handguns in public without a license.
I just checked my state’s law, (We went Constitutional Carry years ago), and it states that anyone 18 and older who is not otherwise precluded from owning a gun can carry one. As to the case in Texas, I really don’t think that the State is going to bother appealing this. While there are those in the Legislature, (cough Communazis cough), who would waste taxpayer money appealing this, The State’s Attorney General knows that it would lose all the way up to the Supreme Court.
Thanks to the Bruen Ruling, courts now are forced to actually refer to the text of the 2nd Amendment, and not make stuff up out of whole cloth. As for Texas, assuming they don’t appeal it, it’s now a matter of simple logistics to notify the appropriate authorities that they can’t go out and harass any 18-20 year olds if they’re strapped. Yet another win for the Ultra MAGA Deplorable Bitter Clingers. Next, it’s on to trashing the National Firearms Act.
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