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VA: Virginia Student to Continue Fight Against Age Limit for Handguns
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Tanner Hirschfeld, a fourth-year student at the university established by founding father Thomas Jefferson, said in an email he was disappointed when Senior U.S. District Judge Glen E. Conrad ruled last week that Hirschfeld’s Second Amendment rights weren’t violated by criminal statutes making it illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to purchase a handgun.
“While the prospective buyers offer policy disagreements with Congress’s conclusions and reasoning, that’s not for the courts to decide,” Conrad wrote in an opinion published Friday, adding that “Congress had a rational basis for regulating adults over 21 different from adults under 21.” |
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PHORTO
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The judge's opinion explained the whole thing wrong with it.
He used "rational basis", the lowest standard. This is why the SCOTUS must soon rule that "rational basis" doesn't cut it for fundamental rights. |
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