Minnesota’s regulations that prohibit adults younger than 21 from carrying firearms are unconstitutional, a federal appeals court has ruled.
On July 16, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit unanimously sided with three 18-to-20-year-old Minnesotans who sued to overturn the state’s carry permit rule, which has been in place since 2003.
Joined by several Second Amendment advocacy groups, the three plaintiffs argued that Minnesota’s permit-to-carry system, along with the requirement that one must be at least 21 years old to apply for a permit, deprived them of their constitutional right to bear arms.
The Eighth Circuit’s ruling upheld a March 2023 decision in which Judge Katherine Menendez of the U.S. District Court of Minnesota struck down the age restriction as unconstitutional but left other carry permit regulations untouched. […]
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