BELLEVUE, Wash. — June 23, 2025 — The Second Modification Basis (SAF) has filed an amicus temporary with the Supreme Court docket urging it to listen to NRA v. Glass, a lawsuit difficult Florida’s ban on firearm purchases by adults beneath 21.
In upholding the statute, the Eleventh Circuit Court docket of Appeals exacerbated the circuit cut up that has emerged on the problem of gun restrictions which goal adults beneath 21, a key problem in SAF’s authorized strategic agenda. The case is now up on a petition for certiorari earlier than the Supreme Court docket asking the excessive courtroom to listen to the case and resolve the circuit cut up on the problem of age-based firearms restrictions.
“The discrimination of adults beneath 21 primarily based purely on their age is a very pernicious type of gun management,” stated SAF Govt Director Adam Kraut. “Reinstating the Second Modification rights of a whole inhabitants of peaceful Individuals can be an enormous win, and the regulation is on our facet. These adults are members of ‘the Individuals’ whose constitutional rights embody the power to buy, possess and carry arms for all lawful functions. These rights can’t be extinguished by state legislators, as they’ve been in Florida.”
As famous within the temporary, “…the age ban violates the Second Modification proper of the individuals to maintain and bear arms as set forth in Heller, McDonald v. Metropolis of Chicago, and Bruen.”
“Florida’s ban on the acquisition of firearms by these beneath 21 is a transparent violation of their Second Modification freedoms,” stated SAF founder and Govt Director Alan M. Gottlieb. “Adults on this nation are afforded all rights beneath the Structure, and the Second Modification must be no totally different. Simply because there are idealogues who suppose protecting and bearing arms must be a second-class proper doesn’t afford them the power to unilaterally decide who can buy firearms.”
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The Second Modification Basis (saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt training, analysis, publishing and authorized motion group devoted to safeguarding and selling the elemental rights of people enshrined within the Second Modification of the US Structure. SAF engages in aggressive authorized motion to make sure the rules of armed self-defense, private liberty, and the possession of arms are defended, secured, and restored. By way of public training initiatives, SAF teaches the significance of the Second Modification to advertise a society that values and workouts the precise to maintain and bear arms.
