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Representative Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, filed a bill to repeal the federal law banning young adults from purchasing handguns from federal firearms license holders.
Massie noted that adults between the ages of eighteen and twenty are indeed prohibited by federal statute from buying handguns, marking a deprivation of their constitutional rights.
The lawmaker asked why a twenty-year-old single mother can be “denied the right to defend herself and her children,” or why eighteen-year-olds can vote in elections and “form business contracts, get married, and serve in the military” if they also cannot legally purchase handguns.
