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Now They Want to Use Toy Gun Control as an Excuse for Actual Gun Bans?

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.

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.