TALLAHASSEE - Amid evolving interpretations of how firearms can be restricted, a federal appeals court on Tuesday grappled with the constitutionality of a Florida law that bars people under age 21 from buying rifles and other long guns.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday considered the constitutionality of a Florida law that prohibits individuals under the age of 21 from purchasing rifles and other long guns. The law was enacted in 2018 after the tragic mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School,

Florida defended its law banning gun sales to people under 21 to a partly skeptical Eleventh Circuit, as courts around the country grapple with firearm age restrictions.

With a federal appeals court poised next week to hear a challenge to a Florida law that bars people under age 21 from buying rifles and other long guns, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday at least temporarily allowed a Pennsylvania gun restriction on young adults.

Amid evolving interpretations of how firearms can be restricted, a federal appeals court on Tuesday grappled with the constitutionality of a Florida law that bars people under age 21 from buying rifles and other long guns.