Federal Court Strikes Down Concealed Carry for Young Adults

The timing of Second Amendment decisions in court always seems to fall at the worst times.

In this case, it is a concealed carry permit case in Minnesota that would have banned carry permits for those between the ages of 18 and 20.

I say the timing is bad because as luck would have it, the shooter who tried to take out Donald Trump was only 20 years old.

Old Enough?

The case, Worth v. Jacobson, was challenging the right of young adults to have a concealed carry permit.

The public argument is that if we don’t allow young adults to consume alcohol until they are 21, why are they able to secure concealed carry permits at such a young age?

The answer, of course, is that it is their constitutional right to do so.

Mind you, the same people making that argument would like to extend voting rights to cover high school students, so the argument is completely self-serving on that front.

Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) President Brandon Combs celebrated the decision, stating, “This decision confirms that age-based firearm bans are flatly unconstitutional.

“All peaceable people have a natural right to carry firearms in public, and adults under the age of 21 are no exception.

“Securing the right to keep and bear arms for all peaceable people is a key element of our high-impact strategy.”

Again, though, you will hear arguments against this decision due to the age of the shooter in the attempted Trump assassination, but you still cannot punish an entire demographic because of the actions of one.

There were plenty of other issues present in the Trump shooter, and we have yet to scratch the surface of what took place there.

But, as I stated before, that will mean little to the left who look for anything and everything they can use to strip Second Amendment rights away from law-abiding citizens in this country.