A Colorado law that bars adults younger than 21 from buying and selling guns is allowed because it does not violate the U.S. Constitution, a trio of federal judges said on Nov. 5.
Age limits on gun purchases are widely imposed across the country and do not implicate the Constitution’s Second Amendment, U.S. Circuit Judge Richard E. N. Federico wrote for the panel that was assigned the case.
The law “is presumptively lawful as a law that imposes conditions or qualifications upon the sale and purchase of arms and thus does not fall within the protections of the plain text of the Second Amendment,” he said….