SCOTUS Rejects NRA Challenges To Gun Law Age Limits

http://personalliberty.com ^ | february 25, 2014

[lowbridge]

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected two National Rifle Association challenges to laws that ban gun permits to people under 21.

The rejections came in one-line orders without comment.

One of the rejected cases brought by the NRA challenged a Texas law that bans those under 21 from getting a gun permit.

The other NRA challenge was to a Federal law that restricts selling handguns to people under 21.

“Given the number of laws enacted by the federal government, states, and localities in the years when a mistaken understanding of the Second Amendment held sway, one would have expected a major reconsideration of extant firearms laws to have occurred,” the NRA stated in its petition for the second case.

In both cases, NRA vs. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and NRA vs. McCraw, lower courts had upheld the laws.

NBC noted that Texas’s defense of its law in the Supreme Court put State Attorney General Greg Abbott in the uncomfortable position of opposing the NRA while running for Governor.

[bunkerhill7]

Uphere we just ignore these communists and teach are kids at age 8 how to hit, at 1/4 mile with a scoped 22, 6 inches from a groundhog and make him jump back in his hole.

[skeeter]

5 to 4 - how did the individual justices vote?

[hinckley buzzard]

Age limits are generally statutory law, not constitutional rights. This is maybe a minor setback, but not much of one.

[usconservative]

So we can draft boys when they're 18, teach 'em how to kill, arm them, and send them off to a foreign land with high powered rifles, grenades, tanks, etc but they can't own a gun in their own home country?

Yep, makes perfect sense ......(/sarcasm)

[Nifster]

No you misread the article (admittedly it was not written clearly), that refers to the two most recent gun rights cases (last one decided in 2010). This was simply a refusal to hear the cases involved. In other words cert was not granted

[Castigar]

“NBC noted that Texas’s defense of its law in the Supreme Court put State Attorney General Greg Abbott in the uncomfortable position of opposing the NRA while running for Governor.”

Wait a minute! According to Holder the AG wouldn’t have to enforce this law if he found it offensive or immoral or whatever. Right? If he didn’t like it he doesn’t have to enforce it according to Holder!

[RedMonqey]

Wait a minute! According to Holder the AG wouldn’t have to enforce this law if he found it offensive or immoral or whatever. Right?

The Dims should have given this a thought or two or two BEFORE allowing such tripe.

They won't be in office forever and it erodes the rule of laaw for the next party to act accordingly since it set an "precedent"

(Just waiting for next elections and drooling for "non enforcemnet" of lota of federal gun laws.")

Of course this just paves the way for the first American Dictator who will use it with "extreme prejudice"

[billhilly]

Do like we did, borrow daddy’s .22 and ping away. We didn’t need anyone’s permission. After all, I was eight years old.

[billhilly]

Do like we did, borrow daddy’s .22 and ping away. We didn’t need anyone’s permission. After all, I was eight years old.

[billhilly]

There goes my keyboard stutter again.

[Lurking Libertarian]

5 to 4 - how did the individual justices vote?

It takes 4 votes to agree to hear a case; in this instance, there were no recorded dissents from the decision not to hear the case. Meaning either that the decision not to hear the case was 9-0, or that there were 3 or fewer Justices who wanted to hear it but who didn't bother recording their dissents.

[Lurking Libertarian]

So we can draft boys when they're 18, teach 'em how to kill, arm them, and send them off to a foreign land with high powered rifles, grenades, tanks, etc but they can't own a gun in their own home country?

That's a good argument to make to the Texas State Legislature as to why they should change the law; it's not a great argument to make to the Supreme Court. Just because a law is stupid doesn't make it unconstitutional.

[usconservative]

Just because a law is stupid doesn't make it unconstitutional.

and just because a law is unconstitutional doesn't mean the USSC will overturn it .....

[Hot Tabasco]

So we can draft boys when they're 18, teach 'em how to kill, arm them, and send them off to a foreign land with high powered rifles, grenades, tanks, etc but they can't own a gun in their own home country?

I couldn't legally drink beer here in Michigan until I got home in Jan. 1972, at the age of 21, after serving almost 3 years in the Army............