Second Amendment Challenge Filed in the Northern District

On September 8, 2010, the National Rifle Association filed, in the Northern District of Texas, a challenge to the federal law banning the sale of handguns to 18-20 year olds by federally licensed dealers.  The challenge comes in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decisions in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) (finding that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense and striking down a District of Columbia law that banned the possession of handguns in the home) and McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010) (incorporating the Second Amendment through the Fourteenth Amendment).  The plaintiff, James D’Cruz, is a resident of Lubbock, Texas.  The case is D’Cruz v. B.A.T.F.E., and is before Judge Cummings.  D’Cruz is represented by Fernando M. Bustos, of the Law Offices of Fernando M. Bustos, P.C. in Lubbock, and Charles J. Cooper, David H. Thompson, and Jesse Panuccio, all of Cooper & Kirk, PLLC in Washington, D.C.  A copy of the complaint is here.