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Related: About this forumA south Florida judge has rejected the state's concealed carry age law
Siding with a 19-year-old man who was spotted with a gun in his waistband, a Broward County circuit judge Friday ruled that a state law barring people under age 21 from carrying concealed weapons violates Second Amendment rights.
Judge Frank Ledee issued a nine-page ruling that said Floridas prohibition on the concealed carry of firearms by eighteen-to-twenty year olds strips a class of legal adults of their ability to exercise the very right the Constitution guarantees.
Ledee cited U.S. Supreme Court rulings in recent years that required analyzing the historical tradition of firearm regulation when determining whether laws violate the Second Amendment.
The state has failed to identify Founding-era law that broadly prohibited the concealed carry of firearms by eighteen-to-twenty year olds, Ledee wrote. The state also failed to cite to any historical regulation imposing a burden or justification comparable to Florida's concealed carry ban as applied to eighteen-to-twenty year olds.
Judge Frank Ledee issued a nine-page ruling that said Floridas prohibition on the concealed carry of firearms by eighteen-to-twenty year olds strips a class of legal adults of their ability to exercise the very right the Constitution guarantees.
Ledee cited U.S. Supreme Court rulings in recent years that required analyzing the historical tradition of firearm regulation when determining whether laws violate the Second Amendment.
The state has failed to identify Founding-era law that broadly prohibited the concealed carry of firearms by eighteen-to-twenty year olds, Ledee wrote. The state also failed to cite to any historical regulation imposing a burden or justification comparable to Florida's concealed carry ban as applied to eighteen-to-twenty year olds.
https://news.wfsu.org/state-news/2025-10-27/a-south-florida-judge-has-rejected-the-states-concealed-carry-age-law
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A south Florida judge has rejected the state's concealed carry age law (Original Post)
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Silent Type
(11,656 posts)1. Just what we need, more legally armed incels.
J_William_Ryan
(3,095 posts)2. Open carry is legal as well in Florida.
Republicans will continue to push the good guy with a gun myth/lie.
HAB911
(10,034 posts)3. Gee, What's the worst that could happen?
JoseBalow
(8,836 posts)4. Ooh, let's lower the drinking age back to 18 too!
21A, bitches!