On March 19, 2020, at AO Sword Firearms in El Cajon, Calif., a large variety of firearms from rifles to handguns were available for purchase. - Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS
A San Diego federal judge has upheld a California law that limits people under the age of 21 from buying semi-automatic rifles and other long guns, ruling that similar laws dating back centuries have also limited gun ownership by young adults for safety reasons. "The restrictions embodied in (the challenged law) were enacted because individuals under the age of 21 lack cognitive maturity and are disproportionately prone to violence," U.S. District Judge M. James Lorenz wrote in his ruling, filed Friday. "For the same reasons, the rights of this age group were curtailed during the Founding era,...
