The law, SB23-169, raises the age minimum to buy a gun in Colorado from 18 to 21 years old and makes it a misdemeanor to buy or sell a gun to someone younger than 21, with exceptions for

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a Colorado law raising the age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21 can take effect while the legal battle over it continues.The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals said that lawyers for one of the young men who challenged the law with a gun rights group,

The law raising the purchase age to 21 had been tied up in court since it was due to take effect last year. Opponents are vowing to appeal.

A panel of 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges allowed a Colorado law making 21 the minimum age to purchase a firearm to go into effect.

The appeals court ruled that a 2023 law imposing an age requirement to buy or sell firearms does not violate the Second Amendment.