Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) have submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the justices to deny Pennsylvania’s request for review in a case affirming the Second Amendment rights of young adults aged 18-20.
The case, Paris v. Lara, centers on a lower court ruling that recognized this age group’s right to bear arms.
SAF and FPC argue that the issue of whether 18-to-20-year-olds have full Second Amendment rights has been effectively settled under the Bruen standard, with lower courts consistently ruling in favor of these rights. They contend that there is no significant disagreement among the courts that would warrant the Supreme Court’s intervention at this stage.
Read: Second Amendment Foundation Seeks Supreme Court Review Of Maryland Rifle Ban
“The case doesn’t deserve Supreme Court review,” stated SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. He criticized Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris for attempting to create a controversy using outdated case law, which he claims was invalidated by the Supreme Court’s 2022 Bruen decision.
This marks the third SAF case to reach the Supreme Court level this year, with the VanDerStok case already granted certiorari and the Snopes case, challenging Maryland’s semi-automatic weapon ban, still pending.
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