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Florida Alert! Mediation "Fruitless" in 18-21 year old Gun Purchase Lawsuit Fight

Sunday, May 31, 2020

 

DATE:  May 31, 2020
TO:     USF & NRA Members and Friends
FROM: Marion P. Hammer
  USF Executive Director
  NRA Past President
   

MEDIATION ‘FRUITLESS’ IN FIGHT OVER GUN LAW 

May 29, 2020

NSF Staff

 

The National Rifle Association and Florida officials are asking a federal judge to drop court-ordered mediation in a lawsuit challenging a 2018 state law that prevents people under age 21 from purchasing firearms. 

The ban was included in a sweeping law passed in response to the Feb. 14, 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Nikolas Cruz, who was 19 at the time of the shooting, is accused of killing 17 students and faculty members with a semi-automatic weapon. 

The law raised the age from 18 to 21 to purchase “long guns,” such as rifles and shotguns. A federal law already banned licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to people under 21, and the state law broadened that to also prevent private sales of handguns to people under 21, according to court documents. 

The NRA challenged the law, alleging that the age restriction is an unconstitutional violation of people’s Second Amendment rights to “purchase firearms to defend themselves, their families, and their homes.” Attorney General Ashley Moody’s lawyers, meanwhile, argue that the law doesn’t violate the Second Amendment because, while individuals who are between ages 18 and 21 cannot buy guns, they may still “keep and use” firearms “for any lawful purpose.” 

In March, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker required the parties to submit a mediation report by July 31 and scheduled a trial in January. But on Friday, lawyers for the state and the NRA asked Walker to allow them to scrap mediation, saying the process “would be fruitless.” The two sides’ positions “are not reconcilable, and no middle ground exists between them,” lawyers wrote in a joint motion “to abrogate” the mediation requirement. 

“Accordingly, the issues involved in this case are not amenable to mediation. Mediation would not be a productive exercise, nor would it be a worthwhile use of the parties’, or the court’s, resources,” the lawyers wrote.

 

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