Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier urged the Supreme Court to invalidate a Florida law that forbids individuals between the ages of 18 and 21 from buying firearms.
Although a state attorney general generally defends the laws of his state, Uthmeier filed a brief on Aug. 20 saying the nation’s highest court should grant a petition for review filed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) that argues the Florida law violates the Second Amendment.
The case is known as National Rifle Association of America Inc. v. Glass. The respondent is Mark Glass, commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
The Republican-dominated Florida Legislature approved the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act in 2018, which then-Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed into law. The statute was named after the mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school that led to the deaths of 17 people….