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McPherson: Ninth Circuit Upholds the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Regardless of standing armies and police forces, under a republican form of government, sovereignty resides in the people.

California’s Ninth Circuit has ruled in a 2-1 decision that a state ban on 18- to 20-year-olds buying semiautomatic rifles is inconsistent with the Second Amendment and must be overturned. “America would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our revolutionary army,” wrote Judge Ryan Nelson. “Today we reaffirm that our Constitution still protects the right that enabled their sacrifice: the right of young adults to keep and bear arms.”

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