Some gun-control “experts” really want to ban young adults from lawfully possessing firearms by citing old state laws that include regulations on toy guns.
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While writing an expert declaration rebuttal for Birney v. Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security (2024), which challenges Delaware’s law banning 18-20-year-old adults from possessing firearms, I ran into a surprising argument from gun-control-supporting “experts.”
They are trying to justify bans on young-adult possession of firearms (as persons under 21 used to be until the 1960s) by pointing to a bunch of laws—including regulations on toy guns—passed in the states after the ratification of the Second Amendment and before ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment.
