California’s ban on the sale of semiautomatic weapons to adults under 21 is unconstitutional, according to a U.S. appeals court that ruled on the matter.
The following year, the Legislature acted to address what they saw as a loophole after anA 19-year-old armed with a semiautomatic rifle he had just purchased with a hunting license killed a 60-year-old woman and injured three others, including the rabbi and an 8-year-old girl at Chabad of Poway.
His lawsuit, which had been filed before the under-age ban on semiautomatic weapons, was amended to also challenge that law. Nelson and Judge Kenneth Lee, who ruled in the majority, were part of Republican President Donald Trump's wave of conservative-approved nominees that reshaped the famously liberal court.
He also said the majority failed to consider the the disproportionate amount of violent crime committed by those under 21 who have relatively less mature cognitive development.
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