MN AG Ellison Vows to Defend Unconstitutional Gun Law to Supreme Court

Are adults actually adults?

There are some people in this country, admittedly, who want to treat every adult as a child, but for the most part, when someone hits the age of adulthood, we treat them as adults. That’s because, well, if we’re not going to do that, then we should stop pretending it’s the age of adulthood. 

However, that’s not what happens in far too many places, particularly when it comes to people’s right to keep and bear arms. Throughout the nation, different states have different rules for adults under the age of 21.

One of those is Minnesota, where they won’t allow people in that age category to get concealed carry permits. That law has been challenged, though, and Minnesota keeps losing, but Attorney General Keith Ellison vowed to keep fighting, including all the way to the Supreme Court.

Minnesota AG Keith Ellison says, “I believe Minnesota’s ban on 18-to-20-year-olds carrying loaded handguns in public is constitutional and will lead to fewer senseless gun deaths across our state. I’m proud to keep defending this common-sense, gun safety law against special interests that put their ideology over your safety.”

Ellison argues that the Eighth Circuit relied too heavily on what is known as the Bruen decision. It was handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022, and it states that modern firearm regulations have to be consistent with what has existed throughout the country’s history, even back to its founding.

Ellison wants it to be reconsidered using the Rahimi standard, which he summarizes as the tenet that modern regulations must adhere to the same principles as older restrictions and the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The thing is, even under Rahimi, this isn’t going to fly.

We’re looking at a rule that deprives the right to bear arms to all law-abiding adults between a certain age. Keep in mind that Minnesota is a permissive open-carry state, meaning you can openly carry a firearm if you have a permit. But you can’t carry concealed without a permit, either. So law-abiding adults under 21 can’t carry a firearm at all under Minnesota law.

That’s not in keeping with the same principles as those older restrictions from around the time of the nation’s founding. Rahimi didn’t create a blanket approval for any gun control law so long as it’s similar to one a few years old or anything. It just said you didn’t need a one-to-one parallel with a rule in existence at the time of the nation’s founding.

The truth of the matter is that Ellison is hostile toward the right to keep and bear arms, as is the state’s governor, and all they want to do is keep as many people as humanly possible from exercising their right to keep and bear arms. That means denying constitutionally protected rights to law-abiding Americans simply because they haven’t hit some magic age.

Especially since those in that age category that represent a problem aren’t exactly the same people wanting to get permits in order to carry lawfully. Gang members and career criminals aren’t exactly known for their law-abiding natures, after all.

Ellison is delusional.