BELLEVUE, Wash. — Might 19, 2025 — The Second Modification Basis (SAF) and its companions have filed a lawsuit in federal court docket difficult Connecticut’s ban on adults below the age of 21 from buying, proudly owning or carrying handguns.
“Second Modification rights can’t be withheld from peaceful adults based mostly on their age,” mentioned SAF Govt Director Adam Kraut. “To take action would relegate the modification’s ensures to second-class standing, which offends the very notion of the Structure’s premise. Our nation’s historical past and custom doesn’t assist this ‘Second Modification lite’ model being supplied to 18-20-year-olds in Connecticut. This lawsuit seeks to vindicate the rights of these people who’re being unlawfully discriminated towards based mostly solely on their age.”
Within the case, Succow v. Bondi, SAF is joined by the Connecticut Residents Protection League and two people, Samuel Towne and Zachary Succow. They’re represented by attorneys Doug Dubitsky of the Legislation Workplaces of Doug Dubitsky, Craig Fishbein of Fishbein Legislation Agency and Cameron Atkinson of Atkinson Legislation.
As famous within the grievance, “There may be merely no historic analogue prohibiting adults below 21 from buying, buying, possessing, or carrying handguns nor of banning in any other case lawful commerce between firearm sellers and adults below 21.”
“This makes 10 lawsuits SAF has filed throughout the nation on behalf of adults on this age group,” mentioned SAF founder and Govt Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “And in every of these lawsuits the premise stays the identical – depriving adults who’re 18-20 years outdated of their constitutional rights is illegitimate, full cease.”
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The Second Modification Basis (saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt schooling, analysis, publishing and authorized motion group devoted to safeguarding and selling the elemental rights of people enshrined within the Second Modification of the US Structure. SAF engages in aggressive authorized motion to make sure the ideas of armed self-defense, private liberty, and the possession of arms are defended, secured, and restored. By way of public schooling initiatives, SAF teaches the significance of the Second Modification to advertise a society that values and workout routines the precise to maintain and bear arms.
