CCRKBA APPLAUDS DOJ POSITION ON HANDGUN SALES TO YOUNG ADULTS
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says the Department of Justice’s analysis that the federal ban on handgun sales to young adults in the 19-20 age group is unconstitutional “is the correct position, and should have been announced long ago.”
The prohibition was part of the 1968 Gun Control Act.
The DOJ memorandum has ignited a fury among gun prohibition groups, which are typically declaring doom and gloom across the landscape. The head of one gun control lobbying organization “used a broad brush to demonize the entire age group” by asserting they are responsible for many school shootings, public mass shootings and gun-related homicides.
“Imagine the backlash if such insulting remarks were made about certain ethnic groups,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “These people are afraid to blame gangs for troubling statistics, so they blame guns. … 
