{"id":2879,"date":"2012-10-25T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/10\/25\/5th-circuit-affirms-ban-on-sale-of\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:19:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:19:50","slug":"5th-circuit-affirms-ban-on-sale-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2879","title":{"rendered":"5th Circuit Affirms Ban On Sale Of Handguns To 18-20 Year Olds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14953,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2011\\\/09\\\/jennings-et-al-v-batfe-et-al-loses-in.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14954,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/nra-files-suits-challenging-handgun.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14955,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.reuters.com\\\/article\\\/2012\\\/10\\\/25\\\/usa-handguns-decision-idUSL1E8LPAUG20121025&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.reuters.com\\\/article\\\/2012\\\/10\\\/25\\\/usa-handguns-decision-idUSL1E8LPAUG20121025&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8462,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2010\\\/12\\\/cruel-game.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14956,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2010\\\/12\\\/how-pathetic.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14957,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\\\/opinions%5Cpub%5C11\\\/11-10959-CV0.wpd.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\\\/opinions\\\\pub\\\\11\\\/11-10959-CV0.wpd.pdf&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>In a decision released today, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/jennings-et-al-v-batfe-et-al-loses-in.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">District Court opinion of Judge Sam Cummings that banning sales of handguns by FFLs<\/a> to those over 18 but under 21 is legal. <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/nra-files-suits-challenging-handgun.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This case, originally named D&#8217;Cruz v. BATFE and now titled Jennings et al v. BATFE<\/a>, was brought in US District Court for the Northern District of Texas back in September 2010<i> <\/i>by the National Rifle Association.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/10\/25\/usa-handguns-decision-idUSL1E8LPAUG20121025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters report on the 5th Circuit&#8217;s decision<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Houston rejected the NRA&#8217;s argument that 18- to 20-year-olds had a right to buy the guns under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>A unanimous three-judge panel said Congress, in a law dating from 1968, adopted the sales ban to help curb violent crime. It also said that the nation&#8217;s founders and 19th-century courts and commentators believed that disarming specific groups did not trample on the right to bear arms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congress was focused on a particular problem: young persons under 21, who are immature and prone to violence, easily accessing handguns,&#8221; mainly from licensed dealers, Judge Edward Prado wrote for the panel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The present ban appears consistent with a longstanding tradition of age- and safety-based restrictions on the ability to access arms,&#8221; he added.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You may remember that the <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/cruel-game.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brady Campaign <\/a>and other gun prohibitionist played gutter politics with this case. They accused James D&#8217;Cruz, then a freshman at Texas Tech, of having a Facebook page filled with &#8220;angry, violent Facebook postings.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/how-pathetic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">D&#8217;Cruz was further demonized by Josh Horwitz of CSGV<\/a> who said &#8220;he&#8217;s a poster boy for why we should prevent handgun sales to those under 21 years of age&#8221; and implied that he sounded like a school shooter.<i><br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions%5Cpub%5C11\/11-10959-CV0.wpd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The full 41 page opinion of the 5th Circuit can be found here<\/a>. I have not had time to read it but hope to have an update posted after I have done so.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a decision released today, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the District Court opinion of Judge&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3565,3566,26],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-5th-circuit-court-of-appeals","tag-jennings-et-al-v-batfe","tag-nra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8468,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions\/8468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}