TALLAHASSEE — In a highly unusual move, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Wednesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a 2018 state law that prevents people under age 21 from buying rifles and other long guns.

Lawyers in Uthmeier’s office, which typically defends state laws, filed a 17-page brief arguing the Supreme Court should take up an appeal by the National Rifle Association that contends the law violates Second Amendment rights.

Then-Gov. Rick Scott and the Republican-controlled Legislature passed the law after a February 2018 shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 people. The NRA quickly challenged the constitutionality of the law but lost in federal district court and at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The NRA went to

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