BELLEVUE, Wash. — June 23, 2025 — The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court urging it to hear NRA v. Glass, a lawsuit challenging Florida’s ban on firearm purchases by adults under 21.
In upholding the statute, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals exacerbated the circuit split that has emerged on the issue of gun restrictions which target adults under 21, a key issue in SAF’s legal strategic agenda. The case is now up on a petition for certiorari before the Supreme Court asking the high court to hear the case and resolve the circuit split on the issue of age-based firearms restrictions.
“The discrimination of adults under 21 based purely on their age is a particularly pernicious form of gun control,” said SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut. “Reinstating the Second Amendment rights of an entire population of peaceable Americans would be a huge win, and the law is on our side. These adults are members of ‘the People’ whose constitutional rights include the ability to purchase, possess and carry arms for all lawful purposes. Those rights cannot be extinguished by state legislators, as they have been in Florida.”
As noted in the brief, “…the age ban violates the Second Amendment right of the people to keep and bear arms as set forth in Heller, McDonald v. City of Chicago, and Bruen.”
“Florida’s ban on the purchase of firearms by those under 21 is a clear violation of their Second Amendment freedoms,” said SAF founder and Executive Director Alan M. Gottlieb. “Adults in this nation are afforded all rights under the Constitution, and the Second Amendment should be no different. Just because there are idealogues who think keeping and bearing arms should be a second-class right does not afford them the ability to unilaterally determine who can purchase firearms.”
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The Second Amendment Foundation (saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the fundamental rights of individuals enshrined in the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. SAF engages in aggressive legal action to ensure the principles of armed self-defense, personal liberty, and the ownership of arms are defended, secured, and restored. Through public education initiatives, SAF teaches the importance of the Second Amendment to promote a society that values and exercises the right to keep and bear arms.
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