The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is taking its fight to the nation’s highest court, filing an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear NRA v. Glass—a challenge to Florida’s controversial ban on firearm purchases by adults under 21.
In a sharply worded filing, SAF argued that the Eleventh Circuit’s decision to uphold the ban deepens a growing circuit split over age-based gun restrictions.
The group is calling on the Supreme Court to resolve the issue once and for all, emphasizing that 18- to 20-year-old adults are full-fledged members of “the People” under the Constitution.
“The discrimination of adults under 21 based purely on their age is a particularly pernicious form of gun control,” said 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.”
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The amicus brief underscores that previous Supreme Court decisions—Heller, McDonald, and Bruen—recognize the right of law-abiding Americans to purchase and bear arms for lawful purposes.
SAF contends that Florida’s blanket ban on adults under 21 is unconstitutional and unsupported by historical tradition.
“Florida’s ban is a clear violation of their Second Amendment freedoms,” added SAF founder Alan M. Gottlieb. “Just because there are ideologues who think keeping and bearing arms should be a second-class right does not give them the power to decide who can exercise it.”
The case, now pending on a petition for certiorari, could become a pivotal Second Amendment showdown if the Supreme Court decides to grant review.
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How did this become law in Florida with DeSantis and Republicans in charge of the legislature? With all the controversial bills they have passed in recent years blocking abortion, blocking transgender medical intervention for children, outlawing DEI, etc., surely they can pass a bill reversing this law.
ban democrats instead