![]() ![]() To be to serve alcohol in each of the respective 50 U.S. The minimum age depends on what state you’re in and can even differ within the same state. Unlike the national minimum drinking age, there is no widespread age requirement for serving alcohol. This article will answer the all-important question, “How old do you have to be to serve alcohol?” Consequently, it’s in the best interest of both you and your business to know and diligently follow all laws related to theĬonsumption and distribution of alcohol. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.Violating alcohol-related laws carries stiff penalties-especially for owners of bars and restaurants. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. And if the ruling is broad enough, legal experts say it could tell us how the new conservative majority might come down on the idea of limiting gun rights by age.Ĭopyright © 2022 NPR. That case also weighs individual rights against societal risk. We may get some more clarity on this from a pending Supreme Court case about gun control in New York. ![]() But he also called that age question, quote, "a constitutional no man's land." Just last year, a federal judge upheld Florida's new age-based law limiting gun sales. KASTE: This legal tension has yet to be resolved. They are thus the same people who are most likely to need a effective mechanism to protect themselves. MATT LAROSIERE: There are plenty of young adults in America who are quite often lower-income people or otherwise disadvantaged, not just financially, and those are the same people who are most likely to be violently victimized. He argues that younger adults may actually rely on that right more than older people. He's with the Firearms Policy Coalition, which led the challenge to California's law. KASTE: But Matt Larosiere says brain science doesn't justify taking away the right to self-defense with a gun from a whole age group. MEGAN RANNEY: We know from lots of studies around motor vehicles and drinking and other common types of injuries that this age group is still developing its frontal lobe, impulse control, judgment and is more likely to take risky actions that lead to injuries. Megan Ranney is an emergency physician and academic dean at the School of Public Health at Brown University. In this case, there's the evidence from brain science. KASTE: But historically, the courts do limit rights where the state can show a compelling interest. JONES: Eighteen to 21-year-olds, they have all the same rights and responsibilities as any other adult, and it's not fair to single out and deprive them of one right. ![]() KASTE: Evan Jones is a gun enthusiast in Texas who just recently turned 22. KASTE: But to people in that age group who own guns, this feels like discrimination.ĮVAN JONES: Well, I would point out that drinking and driving aren't constitutionally protected. Why would we put a semiautomatic rifle in the hands of a teenager? PORTANTINO: You have to be 25 to rent a car. When it comes to guns, he thinks it's just common sense to draw a distinction between 18 and 21. KASTE: Anthony Portantino is the state senator who authored California's ban. And again, look what happened in Buffalo. I mean, this is a fight that is worth fighting. Just last week, a panel of three federal judges in California overturned that state's new higher age for semiautomatic rifles, though the state may appeal.ĪNTHONY PORTANTINO: And I hope they appeal it. On the other side, you have gun rights groups which are challenging those limits. KASTE: On one side, you have states such as Florida, Washington and California, which have responded to mass shootings by raising the age to buy certain rifles to 21. And as to long guns - that's shotguns, rifles, AR-15s - there's no federal ban, but some states have recently put up restrictions.Īdam Winkler is a UCLA law professor who writes about gun policy, and he says the rules for young adults are in flux right now.ĪDAM WINKLER: Well, there's a big fight brewing over these restrictions on guns for 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds because the courts are in the midst of a great expansion of Second Amendment gun rights. They can't buy handguns from licensed dealers, though private sales are allowed in most states. ![]() MARTIN KASTE, BYLINE: When it comes to people between the ages of 18 and 21, gun laws are all over the map. And as NPR's Martin Kaste reports, it's becoming a question for the courts. How old should you have to be to buy a gun? It's a question on many Americans' minds after another mass shooting by a young man in this case, the 18-year-old charged in the killing of 10 people in Buffalo last Saturday. ![]()
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