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Second Amendment Foundation Challenges Connecticut's Under-21 Handgun Ban

The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) announced Monday a new federal lawsuit challenging Connecticut's state law that prohibits adults under the age of 21 from purchasing, owning, or carrying handguns.

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... SAF Executive Director Adam ----- condemned the Connecticut ban in a statement, asserting, "Second Amendment rights cannot be withheld from peaceable adults based on their age. To do so would relegate the amendment's guarantees to second-class status, which offends the very notion of the Constitution's premise." ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-21 12:10 AM | Reply

When are these groups going to start arming the homeless? That would keep the streets immeasurably safer, by their reasoning.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-21 07:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Old enough to be a slave soldier, old enough to own a pistol.

#3 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-05-21 08:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

An uptick in gun violence by the 18 to 21 year crowd will be the primary metric of success.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-21 08:51 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Where's cornholio and donnerBOY? Snoofy's here. We need the terrified trio to weigh in.

#5 | Posted by willowby at 2025-05-21 10:57 PM | Reply

#2

Here you go snoofy.

www.phoenixnewtimes.com

#6 | Posted by willowby at 2025-05-21 11:28 PM | Reply

The jury has returned with a verdict many years ago on whether Americans are to be trusted with everyone carrying a firearm.
We cannot.
I wonder if there is a betting site out there that bets on just how many mass shootings Americans will have to endure, as we indulge the firearm industry and the army of hate that wants all dysfunctional young men to carry on their drunken Friday nights.

#7 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-05-22 07:12 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

The lawsuit was quietly amended to assert that only WHITES under 21 could have access to firearms...

#8 | Posted by catdog at 2025-05-22 08:22 AM | Reply

"#2
Here you go snoofy.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com
#6 | Posted by willowby at 2025-05-21 11:28 PM"

Not only was this article from over 25 years ago, the salient point was it was done on April 1st:

"The article "Give Piece a Chance," though, was a hoax. A spoof. A prank. There is no group calling itself Arm the Homeless distributing handguns, shotguns and assault weapons to vagrants in downtown Phoenix.

www.phoenixnewtimes.com

#9 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2025-05-22 08:46 AM | Reply

Idiots will be idiots (see Fishpoo and Dingaling). And liars will lie and spread misinformation. (See Williowby) And the ignorant will skip over the 1st Amendment in favor of the 2nd (see Ice Barbie)

Even "slave soldiers" are not allowed to carry loaded weapons except under certain circumstances and only in the performance of their duties.

Weapons for soldiers are stored in the armory and are checked out and all ammo is accounted for.

Reducing and eliminating rational common sense rules for weapons is a fools game. But then again we are currently being led by clowns and fools.

What should we expect from clowns and fools? A more hostile and unsafe and deadly world where everyone is practically FORCED to carry deadly weapons. In that world you will need a security detail just to leave your homes.

Gratz.

Enjoy the FAFO America.

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-22 10:04 AM | Reply

"Even "slave soldiers" are not allowed to carry loaded weapons except under certain circumstances and only in the performance of their duties."

The Army Base where Nidal Hasam created the domestic 5.7x28mm handgun industry was a gun free zone.

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 10:09 AM | Reply

The jury has returned with a verdict many years ago on whether Americans are to be trusted with everyone carrying a firearm.
We cannot.

#7 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-05-22 07:12 AM | Reply | Flag:

How many people have you murdered, threatened, etc with your guns?

#12 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-05-22 10:12 AM | Reply

How many people have you murdered, threatened, etc with your guns?

#12 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

Do you still beat your wife?

Hugh is not "everyone". I think the question you are looking for is how many people have been murdered threatened etc by others with guns. Guns are involved in about 40,000 deaths a year in America.

And some people can clearly be trusted. Others clearly cannot. But regardless trust has to be earned.

There is a reason we don't let kids who haven't taken drivers Ed drive and we require them to get a permit to drive cars. We don't trust them. Cars too can be deadly weapons and not everyone has what we used to call "common sense".

#13 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-22 10:27 AM | Reply

How many people have you murdered, threatened, etc with your guns?
#12 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

Nice sample size bro!

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 10:28 AM | Reply

Nice sample size bro!

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 10:28 AM | Reply | Flag:

32% of the population has a gun. The vast, overwhelming majority aren't shooting anybody.

I feel like I could trust you with a gun to not go out and shoot anybody. Yourself, maybe, but others, no.

#15 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-05-22 10:32 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"32% of the population has a gun. The vast, overwhelming majority aren't shooting anybody."

They must be shooting a little bit!

How else are guns are the leading cause of death in children?

Guns are the leading cause of death for children, and you don't think anything is wrong with that.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 10:35 AM | Reply

I feel like I could trust you with a gun to not go out and shoot anybody. Yourself, maybe, but others, no.
#15 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Wow!

You doubled the sample size.

From one to two!

Did you go to college? You're so smart!

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 10:39 AM | Reply

"I feel like I could trust you with a gun"

You support the Second Amendment.

You feel like you could trust Nidal Hasan with a gun.

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 10:45 AM | Reply

No way too brown.

#19 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-05-22 10:47 AM | Reply

Snoofy is a Nazi, just saying.

#20 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-05-22 10:49 AM | Reply

Guns are the leading cause of death for children, and you don't think anything is wrong with that.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 10:35 AM | Reply | Flag:

Black children. 18x more likely, the rest, car accidents, drownings, etc.

You can just say you don't trust black people with guns. It'd be an honest appraisal of the stats you want to quote.

#21 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-05-22 10:51 AM | Reply

No way too brown.
#19 | Posted by sitzkrieg

He's whiter than you!

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 10:51 AM | Reply

You can just say you don't trust black people with guns.
#21 | Posted by sitzkrieg

I don't see why I should have to trust anyone with a gun.

But since you do, explain it to me.

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 10:52 AM | Reply

He's whiter than you!

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 10:51 AM | Reply | Flag:

Not with that name.

#24 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-05-22 10:55 AM | Reply

I don't see why I should have to trust anyone with a gun.
But since you do, explain it to me.

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 10:52 AM | Reply | Flag:

Because you live in America. Ballot or bullet, you better use one

#25 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-05-22 10:58 AM | Reply

Unless you're fresh off the boat from Madrid, he is whiter than your Mexican ass.

Take a look at his picture, you'll see.

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 10:58 AM | Reply

"I don't see why I should have to trust anyone with a gun."

"Because you live in America."

You just said you don't trust black people with guns, so...

#27 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 10:59 AM | Reply

Stupid waste of money.

SCOTUS has indicated in several decisions that they will uphold certain gun regulations, including who can bear an arm, where and when. They even cite the requisite laws from the proper times to fulfill their latest test they concocted out of thin air.

#28 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-22 06:14 PM | Reply

The leading cause of death for children in the US is automobile accidents. Following the logic here we need to ban cars. Social conditions seem to play a part in all of this, but what do I know.

#29 | Posted by DMTDust at 2025-05-22 07:03 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

New Report Highlights U.S. 2022 Gun-Related Deaths: Firearms Remain Leading Cause of Death for Children and Teens, and Disproportionately Affect People of Color (September 2024)

... For third straight year, firearms killed more children and teens, ages 1 to 17, than any other cause including car crashes and cancer ...

The report, Gun Violence in the United States 2022: Examining the Burden Among Children and Teens, assessed the latest finalized data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, highlighting that 48,204 people, the second highest on record, died from gunshots in the U.S. in 2022, including 27,032 suicides, an all-time high for the country.

The annual report's major focus this year is on gun deaths among children ages 1 to 17. In the U.S., gun death rates in this age group have increased by 106 percent since 2013 and have been the leading cause of death among this group since 2020. ...

#30 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-22 07:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Says differently but carry on.

The 10 Leading Causes of Child and Adolescent Death in the United States in 2016, in Order of Frequency.*

Cause of Death No. of Deaths Rate per 100,000 (95% CI) Percent of Deaths
All causes 20,360 26.06 (25.70"26.42)
All injury-related causes 12,336 15.79 (15.51"16.07) 60.6
Motor vehicle crash 4,074 5.21 (5.06"5.38) 20.0
Firearm-related injury 3,143 4.02 (3.88"4.16) 15.4
Homicide 1,865 2.39 (2.28"2.50)
Suicide 1,102 1.41 (1.33"1.50)
Unintentional 126 0.16 (0.13"0.19)
Undetermined intent 50 0.06 (0.05"0.09)
Malignant neoplasm 1,853 2.37 (2.27"2.48) 9.1
Suffocation 1,430 1.83 (1.74"1.93) 7.0
Suicide 1,110 1.42 (1.34"1.51)
Unintentional 235 0.30 (0.26"0.34)
Drowning 995 1.27 (1.20"1.36) 4.9
Drug overdose or poisoning 982 1.26 (1.18"1.34) 4.8
Suicide 123 0.16 (0.13"0.19)
Unintentional 761 0.97 (0.91"1.05)
Congenital anomalies 979 1.25 (1.18"1.33) 4.8
Heart disease 599 0.77 (0.71"0.83) 2.9
Fire or burns 340 0.44 (0.39"0.48) 1.7
Unintentional 272 0.35 (0.31"0.39)
Chronic lower respiratory disease 274 0.35 (0.31"0.40)

#31 | Posted by DMTDust at 2025-05-22 07:43 PM | Reply

@#31

The stats cited are from 2016, and represent children aged 1-19. So more teens driving, than the children aged 1-17 in the 2022 article I cited.

So, it looks like a false equivalency.

But to the point of your two comments, maybe we should raise the age for children driving?

#32 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-22 07:51 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

His reference to slave soldiers is accurate. If you can be drafted, you should have the same rights as everybody else.
Anytime a hysterically fearful anti gun moron like you says "common sense", run.

#33 | Posted by willowby at 2025-05-22 08:47 PM | Reply

Nobody gets drafted any more.

Women can't get drafted, I guess that's why they don't deserve the same rights as men.

#34 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 08:50 PM | Reply

#29

Don't expect logic from the Commucrats here when is comes to firearms. Especially the terrified trio of cornholio, snoofy, donnerboy.

#35 | Posted by willowby at 2025-05-22 09:01 PM | Reply

@#33 ... If you can be drafted, you should have the same rights as everybody else. ...

OK, I admit, I was draft-eligible (a.k.a. 1A) during the Vietnam War.

With that admission, if someone is drafted, that person is trained how to use a firearm (among other things).

Is "everyone else" also trained how to use a firearm?

To your current alias' point, maybe there should be mandatory training for those who purchase a firearm?

#36 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-22 09:02 PM | Reply

" If you can be drafted, you should have the same rights as everybody else. ..."

What a maroon. There is no draft now is there?? How can they be slaves if they all volunteered? It's an all volunteer defense force. That's the reality. So nope. No slave army in this reality. But I am sure Trumpy can fix that.

Maybe we'll even have an all immigrant Army soon. All winners of the American Ice Barbie Games. (losers go straight to the gravel pits)

Meanwhile people willingly agree to the government's terms (the UCMJ) and they willingly sign the contract. If they don't read the contract then that's on them.

#37 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-22 11:18 PM | Reply

No slave army in this reality.

#37 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-22 11:18 PM | Reply

The US always maintains the capability of raising a slave army.

Who needs to register

"Failing to register with Selective Service (the draft) is a felony under federal law. Penalties can include fines up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment for up to five years. Additionally, failure to register can result in ineligibility for certain benefits, including federal jobs, state-funded student loans, and citizenship."

#38 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-05-23 10:06 AM | Reply

Unless you're fresh off the boat from Madrid, he is whiter than your Mexican ass.
Take a look at his picture, you'll see.

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 10:58 AM | Reply | Flag:

A muslim with the last name Hasan is one of the least white things you can come up with. You definitely didn't take any college level classes that discuss Whiteness.

#39 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-05-23 10:10 AM | Reply

but as far as kids dying by gunfire in America, it's black kids, in a very narrow range of zip codes that were turned into warzones for drug distribution territory 45 years ago and haven't changed.

In a thread about Connecticut, where it's mostly affluent white people, and the worst city crime rate is 5x lower than Houston, 10x less than Chiraq...

#40 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-05-23 10:14 AM | Reply

21x lower than St. Louis, not to pick on Chiraq.

#41 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-05-23 10:16 AM | Reply

This is horrible, if I ca'nt get a 25yr old ban, 21 will do.

Nobody gets drafted any more.

Women can't get drafted ...
#34 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

According to you neither can men.

#42 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-05-23 10:40 AM | Reply

You definitely didn't take any college level classes that discuss Whiteness.

#39 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

And yet he majored in it

#43 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-05-23 10:41 AM | Reply

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