Twenty Senate Democrats, including Chuck Schumer, are demanding that Attorney General Todd Blanche explain the Justice Department's decision to stop enforcing the federal ban on licensed dealers selling handguns to 18- to 20-year-olds. The move follows a Sept. 17 Office of Legal Counsel opinion calling the 1968 law unconstitutional as applied to young adults. The senators want the legal basis and a list of affected cases by Nov. 16.

A bipartisan group of nine senators, led by Jim Banks and including Tom Cotton and Adam Schiff, is pressing the FDA to crack down on online sellers using "for research use only" labels to sell unapproved drugs, pointing to a surge in knockoff versions of the experimental weight-loss drug retatrutide. Their Oct. 14 letter cites a 265% jump in related poisonings and asks for a briefing. TDFP first reports the letter.