So how old do you have to be before the press stops calling you a “youth”?
From The State:

Youths ages 18 through 20 can possess handguns legally under a state Supreme Court ruling issued Monday.

The unanimous decision mirrors a new state law that took effect last month.

The five-member high court said the old law violated the state constitution, which grants full legal rights to everyone who is at least 18 — with the exception of alcohol purchases.

“By expressly allowing the regulation of the sale of alcoholic beverages to the 18-to-20-year-old age group and not stating any other situation in which the General Assembly may restrict the rights of this age group, the state constitution precludes the General Assembly from prohibiting this age group’s possession of handguns,” Justice James Moore wrote for the court.

The state Attorney General’s Office, in court papers, supported the old law.

“Certainly if it is appropriate for the Legislature to stop a 19-year-old from having a Heineken, it is also appropriate under the same power to prohibit that same 19-year-old from having a Glock 9mm semi-automatic pistol,” according to a legal brief submitted for the appeal.

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