Will SCOTUS Take Up Gun Bans for Young Adults?

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There should be no question.  If 18-year-olds in our military have the right, why not everyone that age?
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Will SCOTUS Take Up Gun Bans for Young Adults?

 

Fingers crossed, though given the months-long limbo for "assault weapon" and "large capacity" magazine ban cases that the Court has subjected us to, it's very much an open question about what the justices will do with the latest Second Amendment cert petition to land on their doorstep.

 

In a somewhat unusual step, both the plaintiffs and defendants in a 2A case are asking the Court to step in and make a final determination.  Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison was the first party to ask SCOTUS to grant cert to Worth v. Jacobson after an Eighth Circuit panel unanimously agreed that the state's law prohibiting adults under the age of 21 from lawfully carrying a firearm violated their Second Amendment rights, but now the Firearms Policy Coalition, MN Gun Owners Caucus, and Second Amendment Foundation are also asking SCOTUS to hear the case.

In their reply to Ellison's petition, the plaintiffs note that appellate courts across the country are at odds with each other over when, exactly, our right to keep and bear arms kicks in, and only SCOTUS can answer that question with any degree of finality.  [...]

 

https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/03/11/will-scotus-take-up-gun-bans-for-young-adults-n1227937