NRA Wants US Supreme Court to Rule on Florida’s Law Restricting Gun-Buying Age

Too young to buy a rifle? NRA begs Supreme Court to overturn Florida law

NRA appeals to U.S. Supreme Court on FL ban of purchases of long guns by under-21-year-olds by Mitch Perry, Florida Phoenix May 16, 2025 The National Rifle Association (NRA) on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its challenge to Florida’s ban on firearm purchases by adults under 21. It’s the latest move by the gun-rights group in its four-year battle to override the 2018 Florida law that bans 18-to-20-year-olds from purchasing long …

NRA wants US Supreme Court to rule on Florida’s law restricting gun-buying age

TALLAHASSEE — Calling split appellate-court decisions “intolerable,” the National Rifle Association on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a challenge to a Florida law that raised the minimum age to purchase rifles and other long guns from 18 to 21. Friday’s move was the latest in seven years of legal wrangling over the law passed after a February 2018 mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 stu…

NRA appeals to U.S. Supreme Court on FL ban of purchases of long guns by under-21-year-olds

Photo via Getty Images/Colorado NewslineThe National Rifle Association (NRA) on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its challenge to Florida’s ban on firearm purchases by adults under 21. It’s the latest move by the gun-rights group in its four-year-battle to override the 2018 Florida law that bans 18-to-20-year-olds from purchasing long guns. The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied the legal challenge by the NRA i…

NRA Takes Florida Gun Law to Supreme Court

TALLAHASSEE — Calling split appellate-court decisions “intolerable,” the National Rifle Association on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a challenge to a Florida law that raised the minimum age to purchase rifles and other long guns from…