Court Opinion

ID: 9489189
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 13:08:26.193382+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:53:23.065848
License: Public Domain

*1574REINHARDT, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I agree fully with Judge Tashima’s opinion. I note only that Congress, not the courts, has the authority to determine whether children may possess dangerous weapons if their parents consent. For better or for worse, it has said that they may. Surely, we cannot undo that legislative judgment. In this case, the mother’s consent was manifest. In fact, she communicated it directly to the weapons dealer. Whatever her inner reservations may have been, she gave her consent when it counted most — at the time of the sale. Thus, under the law, none of the charged offenses occurred.