Supreme Court punts, for now, on 18-20 YOs carrying guns

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Supreme Court punts, for now, on 18-20 YOs carrying guns

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"In Paris v. Lara, Pennsylvania had appealed in a challenge to a state law that effectively bars 18- to 20-year-olds from openly carrying a gun when Pennsylvania has declared a state of emergency. In a decision issued in June 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit barred the state from enforcing the law, reasoning that the words “the people” in the Second Amendment “presumptively encompass all Americans, including 18-to-20-year-olds, and we are aware of no founding-era law that supports disarming people in that age group.''

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/10/supr ... -under-21/
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tector wrote: Tue Oct 15, 2024 8:09 pm "In Paris v. Lara, Pennsylvania had appealed in a challenge to a state law that effectively bars 18- to 20-year-olds from openly carrying a gun when Pennsylvania has declared a state of emergency. In a decision issued in June 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit barred the state from enforcing the law, reasoning that the words “the people” in the Second Amendment “presumptively encompass all Americans, including 18-to-20-year-olds, and we are aware of no founding-era law that supports disarming people in that age group.''

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/10/supr ... -under-21/
Yeah, SCOTUS "GVR'ed" it. The Internet 2A pundits aren't all that concerned about it, though. Some even see that as a positive (i.e. allows an even more important case like the current AR Ban) to be granted cert this year... given the present theory that SCOTUS would only take up three 2A cases in a year, (Paris vs. Lara) would have been the third. Maybe they are saving the space for the Bianchi-Snope case.

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