Amish man challenges photo ID requirement to buy firearms on religious grounds

Rt.com reports: In a rare case of gun rights and religious freedom overlapping, an Amish man from Pennsylvania is challenging a federal law that requires a photo ID to buy a firearm, saying that his religious beliefs prevent him from being photographed. Andrew Hertzler filed a suit on Friday in the US Middle District Court claiming that the photographic identification requirement violates both the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and his constitutional right to bear arms. Hertzler tried to purchase a firearm at a Pennsylvania firearm dealer with a state-issued ID. The sale was denied because the identification card didn’t have a photograph on it, which the law requires.  The suit names defendants as the federal government, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James B. Comey, as well as Thomas E. Brandon and Christopher C. Shaffer, the acting director and the assistant director of public and government affairs, respectively, for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF)...