US Supreme Court Won’t Revive Minnesota Age Restriction on Guns

The court said the state did not provide enough evidence to show that firearm bans for 18- to 20-year-olds were consistent with ‘historical analogues.’

The Supreme Court in Washington on June 20, 2024. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

The U.S. Supreme Court on April 21 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 that 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.