Natl Rifle Assn of America Inc v. Steven Mc

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• recognizing the “longstanding tradition of targeting select groups’ ability to access and to use arms for the sake of public safety”
• considering the legislative record and a historical analysis to determine Texas’s objectives in passing a gun control law
• applying intermediate scrutiny to Texas law preventing adults under 21 from carrying handguns in public
• applying intermediate scrutiny to Texas law preventing adults under 21 from carrying handguns in public
• upholding, after conducting an extensive historical analysis, Texas statutory ban on persons under 21 years of age from possessing guns in public because that conduct “falls outside the Second Amendment’s protection” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• finding Texas’s statutory scheme barring 18- to 20-year-olds from carrying handguns in public was consistent with longstanding traditions of imposing age and safety based restrictions on the ability to access arms

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