{"id":670762,"date":"2026-09-18T21:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=670762"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:19:11","slug":"doj-federal-ban-on-sale-of-handguns-to-18-year-olds-is-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=670762","title":{"rendered":"DOJ: Federal Ban On Sale Of Handguns To 18-Year-Olds Is Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/439618212_db28202465_k-e1789762030436-1200x675.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Handgun\" \/>Eighteen-year-olds \u201cmay vote, serve on juries, be drafted, and face adult criminal penalties,\u201d and now they can purchase handguns and handgun ammunition from a licensed firearm dealer without the dealer being prosecuted by the DOJ if they are otherwise eligible, Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser announced in a statement Friday. The DOJ\u2019s Office of [\u2026]<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/439618212_db28202465_k-e1789762030436-1200x675.jpg\" title=\"DOJ: Federal Ban On Sale Of Handguns To 18-Year-Olds Is Unconstitutional\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen-year-olds \u201cmay vote, serve on juries, be drafted, and face adult criminal penalties,\u201d and now they can purchase handguns and handgun ammunition from a licensed firearm dealer without the dealer being prosecuted by the DOJ if they are otherwise eligible, Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser announced in a statement Friday. The DOJ\u2019s Office of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=670762\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DOJ: Federal Ban On Sale Of Handguns To 18-Year-Olds Is Unconstitutional<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":670763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/670763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}