Gun Rights Group Challenges Florida Age-Based Restrictions, Citing Constitutional Violations
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) today announced it has filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of the United States, imploring the high court to grant certiorari in NRA v. Glass, a pivotal case challenging Florida’s state law prohibiting individuals under the age of 21 from purchasing firearms.
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to uphold Florida’s statute has intensified a growing circuit split concerning the legality of age-based gun restrictions targeting young adults. This issue is a central component of SAF’s broader legal strategy.
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The current petition for certiorari asks the Supreme Court to intervene and provide a definitive resolution to this nationwide legal divergence.
“The discrimination of adults under 21 based purely on their age is a particularly pernicious form of gun control,” stated SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut. “Reinstating the Second Amendment rights of an entire population of peaceable Americans would be a huge win, and the law is on our side. These adults are members of ‘the People’ whose constitutional rights include the ability to purchase, possess and carry arms for all lawful purposes. Those rights cannot be extinguished by state legislators, as they have been in Florida.”
The amicus brief filed by SAF emphasizes that the age ban directly contravenes the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, as established by landmark Supreme Court rulings in Heller, McDonald v. City of Chicago, and Bruen.
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SAF founder and Executive Director Alan M. Gottlieb underscored the organization’s stance: “Florida’s ban on the purchase of firearms by those under 21 is a clear violation of their Second Amendment freedoms. Adults in this nation are afforded all rights under the Constitution, and the Second Amendment should be no different. Just because there are idealogues who think keeping and bearing arms should be a second-class right does not afford them the ability to unilaterally determine who can purchase firearms.”
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