2026年9月18日 美国东部时间下午3:20 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
美国司法部周五发布一份新的法律意见，认定一项禁止枪支经销商向18至20岁年轻人出售手枪或手枪弹药的联邦枪支法违宪，认为该法案侵犯了年轻人的第二修正案权利。
该意见发布的前一天，哥伦比亚广播公司新闻曾报道，美国司法部将不会就一项法院裁决提起上诉，该裁决在《全国枪支法》框架下大幅放松了对消音器、短管步枪、短管霰弹枪及其他定制枪支的监管。向21岁以下成年人出售手枪的禁令源自另一项独立法律。
负责法律顾问办公室的助理司法部长T·埃利奥特·盖瑟写道：“我们的法律认定18岁成年人‘足够成熟，可以被征召入伍、投票、担任陪审员，甚至被判处死刑’。2020年东京奥运会上，就有一位18岁选手代表美国参加了飞碟射击比赛。”“然而，基于对18岁成年人能否像负责任的成年人一样使用手枪的担忧而制定的相关法规，却会让持牌经销商在她离开或回到德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校学习后向其出售手枪的行为，被定为联邦重罪。”
这份法律顾问办公室的意见不具备法律约束力，也不会创造任何判例。
不过，这一意见可能会促使全美联邦检察官不再对被指控故意向21岁以下年轻人出售手枪的持牌枪支经销商提起重罪指控。
支持枪支管控的组织GIFFORDS谴责了这一决定，称其是“特朗普政府为讨好枪支游说团体而拒绝捍卫相关法律的最新举措”。
“这是特朗普政府为讨好其枪支游说团体的首席执行官捐赠者而采取的又一项非法且危险的行动，”GIFFORDS执行董事艾玛·布朗在一份声明中说道。“18至20岁人群在校园枪击案、公共大规模枪击案以及整体枪支杀人案中所占比例过高。最低年龄限制法案的存在自有其道理。我们将尽一切努力对抗这一决定。”
本文为突发新闻，将持续更新。
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DOJ says ban on selling handguns to young adults under 21 is unconstitutional
2026-09-18 3:20 PM EDT / CBS News
The Justice Department on Friday released a new legal opinion which concludes that a federal gun law prohibiting firearms dealers from selling handguns or handgun ammunition to young adults between the ages of 18 and 20 is unconstitutional by violating their Second Amendment rights.
The opinion was issued one day after CBS News reported that the Justice Department will also not appeal a court decision that largely deregulates silencers, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and other bespoke guns under the National Firearms Act. The ban on selling handguns to adults under the age of 21 stemmed from a separate law.
“Our laws deem an eighteen-year-old ‘mature enough to be drafted, vote, serve as a juror, and be sentenced to death.’ One such eighteen-year-old represented the United States at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, shooting skeet,” wrote T. Elliot Gaiser, the assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel. “Yet, due to statutes predicated on concerns over an eighteen-year-old’s ability to handle a pistol as a responsible adult, it would have been a federal felony if a licensed dealer had sold her such a firearm before she left or after she returned to her studies at the University of Texas at Arlington.”
The OLC opinion is not legally binding, nor does it create any precedent.
However, it is likely to lead federal prosecutors across the country to refrain from pursuing felony charges against licensed firearms dealers who are suspected of knowingly selling handguns to young adults under the age of 21.
The pro-gun control organization GIFFORDS assailed the decision, calling it “the latest move by the Trump administration to refuse to defend the law to please the gun lobby.”
“This is yet another illegal and dangerous action by the Trump administration to please their gun lobby CEO donors,” GIFFORDS Executive Director Emma Brown said in a statement. “People ages 18 to 20 are responsible for a disproportionate share of school shootings, public mass shootings, and gun homicides overall. There is a reason minimum age laws exist. We will do everything we can to fight this.”
This is a breaking story; it will be updated.
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