A federal court ruling that Texas’ age 21 baseline for carrying a handgun in public is unconstitutional portends a trend for other states with such laws.

Courts in at least six other states are facing similar challenges, and all are reacting to the consequences of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 23 opinion in a New York case that said possession of pistols in public was a constitutional right.

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