A Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas voided one of the state’s few gun control laws, a law that bans people from the ages of 18 to 20 from carrying a handgun in public, the first reversal of a state gun law since the Supreme Court struck down New York state regulations in June, Reuters reports.
Judge Mark Pittman referred to the Supreme Court order to use a “history-only” prism to interpret the Constitution–that is, what gun control laws would have been enacted at the time the Constitution was ratified in the 18th Century–in order to decide if a gun law would be Constitutional now.
Pittman determined that limiting the right to carry a handgun should not be limited to any legal adult over the age of 18.