According to The Reload’s reporting on the opinion, the judge upheld the federal restriction on licensed dealers selling handguns to people under 21 by leaning on Founding-era contract law — the idea that minors at the time could not always enter into binding contracts for commercial goods.
But cannot buy a handgun because a judge says the Founding-era rules around contracts support that restriction.
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Connecticut just won a federal court case defending its handgun restrictions on 18, 19, and 20-year-olds.
The Attorney General called it a big win.
But the judge’s own ruling tells a much more complicated story.
Under Bruen, “common sense” is not the legal test. The government has to show that a gun law fits this country’s history and tradition of firearm regulation.
That is where this ruling gets strange.
According to The Reload’s reporting on the opinion, the judge upheld the federal restriction on licensed dealers selling handguns to people under 21 by leaning on Founding-era contract law — the idea that minors at the time could not always enter into binding contracts for commercial goods.
So an 18-year-old can sign a student loan.
Sign an enlistment contract.
Get handed a rifle overseas.
But cannot buy a handgun because a judge says the Founding-era rules around contracts support that restriction.
Then the Connecticut possession and carry ban gets even more questionable.
The judge acknowledged that the Founding-era record cuts both ways. In some settings, young people were restricted. In others, like the militia context, they were expected to possess and carry arms.
Expected.
That should matter.
Because this country’s early national defense system depended on young men showing up armed.
But instead of that ending the case, the court kept going and reached into Reconstruction-era laws to uphold Connecticut’s restriction.
That is the move.
If the Founding does not give you the answer you want, keep walking through history until another century does.
And that should bother every gun owner.
Because once courts accept the idea that a constitutional right can simply switch on at 21, the number becomes negotiable.
Today it is handguns at 18, 19, and 20.
Tomorrow it is semi-auto rifles.
Then 21 becomes 25.
Then 25 becomes whatever number politicians think they can get away with.
Meanwhile, the person carrying an illegal gun in Bridgeport did not read this opinion.
The only person this law actually stops is the young adult who tried to do it legally.
That is the part nobody at the victory lap wants to talk about.
Your rights at 19 should not depend on your zip code.
And a judge should not be able to admit the Founding-era history does not clearly support the ban, then uphold it anyway by shopping in a different century.
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