 of 18 to 20-year-olds under the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment to keep and bear arms. U.S. Circuit Judge Dwayne Benton, writing for a panel of three judges all appointed by Republican presidents, held that under recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have expanded gun rights, the state's 2003 law could not be deemed valid. Importantly, the Second Amendment's plain text does not have an age limit, he wrote.