John Stark
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Minnesota Age Limit for Gun-Carry Permits
18-to-20-year-olds in Minnesota may soon be able to exercise the same right to carry a handgun as their peers.
thereload.com
""U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez, a Biden appointee, ruled on Friday that a Minnesota law requiring an applicant for a concealed carry permit to be at least 21 years of age is unconstitutional. She noted that the state government failed to demonstrate a historical tradition of “relevantly similar regulations” singling out adults under 21 from carrying firearms for self-defense."
“Based on a careful review of the record, the Court finds that Defendants have failed to identify analogous regulations that show a historical tradition in America of depriving 18–20-year-olds the right to publicly carry a handgun for self-defense,” Menendez wrote in her Worth v. Harrington opinion. “As a result, the age requirement prohibiting persons between the ages of 18 and 20 from obtaining such a permit to carry violates the Second Amendment.”
"Judge Menendez did not issue a stay on her decision to allow the state time to consider its options."
"Menendez expressed reservations about the Bruen test in her opinion, noting that she was forced to dismiss “interests in public safety” put forward by the state government and several gun-control advocates who filed briefs in the case. Nonetheless, she said the “relative dearth of firearms regulation” at the time of the American founding left her no choice but to strike the law down under the test.
“Bruen makes clear that today’s policy considerations play no role in an analytical framework that begins and ends more than two hundred years ago,” she wrote.""
I don't know about anyone else, I think for me its time for a reread of Heller, McDonald, and Bruen.
