The NRA just dropped a bombshell Petition for Certiorari in NRA v. Glass, thrusting Florida’s draconian ban on 18-to-20-year-olds buying firearms straight into the Supreme Court’s crosshairs. Since 2018, the Sunshine State has treated young adults—who can vote, sign contracts, marry, and deploy to war zones—as second-class citizens when it comes to exercising their Second Amendment rights. Violate the ban? You’re staring down five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. The en banc Eleventh Circuit rubber-stamped this nonsense in a splintered March 2025 ruling, but the NRA isn’t backing down. They’re highlighting a glaring circuit split: the Third, Fifth, and Eighth Circuits affirm young adults’ 2A rights (with the Fourth and Ninth echoing that before vacaturs), while the Tenth and Eleventh play nanny state. This is cert-worthy gold, forcing SCOTUS to resolve the chaos.

Under the Bruen framework—NRA’s own Supreme Court triumph—no historical tradition supports stripping 18-to-20-year-olds of firearm purchase rights. Founding-era militias mandated these minutemen to arm up, often mustering with personal muskets by age 16. Florida’s ban isn’t sensitive places or minor regs; it’s a total blackout on law-abiding adults joining the people protected by the Second Amendment. NRA-ILA’s John Commerford nails it: if you’re old enough to bleed for America, you’re old enough to buy a Glock. The petition dismantles the ageist myth with irrefutable history, positioning this as the next big test of Bruen’s text, history, and tradition mandate.

For the 2A community, victory here could shatter age-based barriers nationwide, affirming that rights don’t expire at 21. It builds on Rahimi’s narrow carve-outs, rejecting emotional post-Parkland pandering for constitutional steel. Gun owners, lawmakers, and patriots: eyes on SCOTUS. This isn’t just Florida’s fight—it’s a firewall against incremental erosion of our core liberties. Read the full petition and gear up; the battle for young adults’ self-defense rights is heating up.