Federal judge: 18-20 year-olds can get Minnesota gun permits

[RandySF]

A federal judge on Friday invalidated a Minnesota law that excludes adults under age 21 from obtaining permits to carry guns in public.

With the help of gun-rights groups, three people who were under 21 years old sued the state and some county sheriffs over a clause in a 2003 Minnesota law disqualifying them from getting a permit to have a gun in public. The case was filed in 2021.

U.S. District Court Judge Katherine M. Menendez ruled that their constitutional rights had been violated. The judge barred the state from enforcing the law.

“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 to 20-year-olds the right to publicly carry a handgun for self-defense,” Menendez wrote in a 50-page order. “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.”

She suggested her hands were tied by a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2022 known as the Bruen decision. That, she said, elevates the constitutional protection over restrictions designed around a social or public safety purpose.




https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/03/31/federal-judge-1820-yearolds-can-get-mn-gun-permits

[Throck]

1. What kind of judge would rule like that?

[NickB79]

5. A Biden-appointed one

Bruen really tied her hands on the decision.

[Freethinker65]

2. But didn't only white males have rights when the 2nd Amendment was written

Is she sure women and minorities were considered people. It also doesn't mention age so why any age restriction?

What it does mention is a well regulated militia, which these people that objected to the age regulation/restrictions probably do not even belong to.

Insanity. But watch the rights of free speech, press, and assembly be further degraded.

[BigmanPigman]

3. There was a post yesterday with a lot of replies......

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3053893

[Irish_Dem]

4. The American judiciary continues to enable the slaughter of our children.

Our founding fathers certainly did not intend that 6 yr old children to be murdered in school.

[Mister Ed]

6. But they can't buy alcoholic beverages.

So, guns yes, beer no.

[former9thward]

7. They certainly should be able to buy a beer.

If you can join our military and possibly die it is a disgrace that you can't buy a beer. Minn. should be ashamed of itself for not allowing beer at 18.

[sl8]

8. The feds bear much of the blame for that:

https://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/the-1984-national-minimum-drinking-age-act#

The 1984 National Minimum Drinking Age Act

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. "...analogous regulations that show a historical tradition..."

So, it appears that the door on "establishing traditions" closed as of yesterday, unless Congress passes something other than a kidney stone here and there.