The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from the state of Minnesota asking the high court to resurrect its law barring adults younger than 21 from obtaining a permit to carry a firearm in public.
The nine justices declined to hear the state’s appeal, letting stand a 2024 ruling by the St. Louis-based Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that found the restriction violated the rights of adults aged 18, 19, and 20 to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The federal appeals court in St. Louis noted that the Second Amendment sets no age limit and generally allows for law-abiding, ordinary young adults to have and bear firearms….