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In It to Win It

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Mon Oct 27, 2025, 11:26 AM Yesterday

A 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 Florida’s “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) In It to Win It Yesterday OP
Just what we need, more legally armed incels. Silent Type Yesterday #1
Open carry is legal as well in Florida. J_William_Ryan Yesterday #2
Gee, What's the worst that could happen? HAB911 Yesterday #3
Ooh, let's lower the drinking age back to 18 too! JoseBalow 23 hrs ago #4

J_William_Ryan

(3,095 posts)
2. Open carry is legal as well in Florida.
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 01:40 PM
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Republicans will continue to push the ‘good guy with a gun’ myth/lie.

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