(KNSI) – The Minnesota Attorney General’s Office will appeal a famous gun control case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Worth v. Jacobson resulted in multiple courts striking down a state ban on handgun carry permits for adults ages 18 to 20. Even though Minnesota lost in a lower court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, the law has been allowed to remain in effect until every possible venue considers it.
Minnesota AG Keith Ellison says, “I believe Minnesota’s ban on 18-to-20-year-olds carrying loaded handguns in public is constitutional and will lead to fewer senseless gun deaths across our state. I’m proud to keep defending this common-sense, gun safety law against special interests that put their ideology over your safety.”
Ellison argues that the Eighth Circuit relied too heavily on what is known as the Bruen decision. It was handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022, and it states that modern firearm regulations have to be consistent with what has existed throughout the country’s history, even back to its founding.
Ellison wants it to be reconsidered using the Rahimi standard, which he summarizes as the tenet that modern regulations must adhere to the same principles as older restrictions and the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The lower court first issued an opinion on the case in 2021. The Eighth Circuit weighed in last year. The U.S. Supreme Court would likely not take the case until at least the fall of 2025.
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