{"id":108472,"date":"2025-03-17T12:51:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=108472"},"modified":"2025-03-17T12:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:51:21","slug":"108472","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=108472","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

SAF FILES RESPONSE BRIEF WITH SCOTUS IN MINNESOTA CARRY CASE<\/a><\/p>\n

BELLEVUE, Wash. \u2014 March 10, 2025 \u2014 Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in a case challenging the State of Minnesota\u2019s prohibition on licensed concealed carry by young adults ages 18-20 have filed a\u00a0response brief<\/a>\u00a0with the U.S. Supreme Court encouraging the justices to \u201cgrant plenary review and set the case for argument.\u201d<\/p>\n

The case is known as\u00a0Jacobson<\/em>\u00a0v. Worth,<\/em>\u00a0originally filed in June 2021 as\u00a0Worth v. Harrington<\/em><\/a>. SAF is joined by the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, Firearms Policy Coalition, and three private citizens, Kristin Worth, for whom the case is named, Austin Dye, and Axel Anderson. While all three have turned 21, the Eighth Circuit Court granted a motion to supplement the record and allow another individual, Joe Knudsen, to carry the complaint. They are represented by attorneys David H. Thompson, Peter A. Patterson, John D. Ohlendorf and William V. Bergstrom at Cooper & Kirk in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

SAF won this case at trial and at the appeals court level. Minnesota is appealing the ruling.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s filing is unique in that we are agreeing with Minnesota\u2019s request in asking the Supreme Court to hear our case to resolve a dispute between the circuits,\u201d said SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut. \u201cThe lower courts are not unanimous in their approach to the Second Amendment rights of 18-20-year-olds. It is important that the Court weigh in to confirm that 18-20-year-olds are part of \u2018the People\u2019 and the Second Amendment applies in full to those individuals. The ban Minnesota seeks to uphold eviscerates the right of those adults to be able to carry a firearm for self-defense. This is patently unconstitutional and while we prevailed at the court of appeals, the Supreme Court needs to ensure all the lower courts reach the proper result. By taking this case, they can do just that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA clear majority of federal courts have already protected the Second Amendment rights of young adults,\u201d added SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. \u201cAs we note in our brief, we are not aware of any evidence of colonial or Founding-era laws restricting 18-to-20-year-olds from their right to keep and bear arms. Indeed, history is full of evidence that people in this age group were not prevented from keeping or carrying their own arms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SAF FILES RESPONSE BRIEF WITH SCOTUS IN MINNESOTA CARRY CASE BELLEVUE, Wash. \u2014 March 10, 2025 \u2014 Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in a case challenging the State of Minnesota\u2019s prohibition on licensed concealed carry by young adults ages 18-20 have filed a\u00a0response brief\u00a0with the U.S. Supreme Court encouraging the justices … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108473,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108472\/revisions\/108473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}