BELLEVUE, Wash. — Jan. 26, 2026 — The Second Modification Basis (SAF) and its companions have filed a reply transient in Escher v. Noble, a lawsuit difficult Massachusetts’ ban on the acquisition, carry and possession of firearms by 18-20-year-olds.
To buy or possess a firearm in Massachusetts a person should first purchase certainly one of two licenses: a firearm identification card or a license to hold. The one possibility out there to 18-20-year-olds, nevertheless, is the identification card. Even with the ID card, residents on this age group are solely allowed to buy and possess rifles and shotguns that aren’t “giant capability” or semi-automatic. Handguns are unattainable solely.
“There isn’t a historic custom of stripping sure adults of their gun rights due to their age,” stated SAF Director of Authorized Operations Invoice Sack. “And, as we level out in our transient, on the time of the Founding, residents on this age group weren’t solely allowed to personal weapons however have been required to. At minimal, all adults beneath 21 are a part of “the Individuals” contemplated by the Second Modification and due to this fact have each proper to buy, carry and possess firearms.”
SAF is joined within the case by the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation, Gun House owners’ Motion League, Commonwealth Second Modification, Firearms Coverage Coalition, Gun House owners of America and personal citizen Mack Escher.
“Now we have quite a few lawsuits throughout the nation difficult legal guidelines that hinder adults between 18-20 years outdated from buying or possessing firearms,” stated SAF founder and Govt Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “You merely can not ban adults from exercising their Second Modification rights due to their age. In case you’re 18 or older you’re thought-about an grownup as a matter of regulation, so why then is the Second Modification handled as a second-class proper for this subset of adults?”
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The Second Modification Basis (saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt training, analysis, publishing and authorized motion group devoted to safeguarding and selling the basic rights of people enshrined within the Second Modification of the USA Structure. SAF engages in aggressive authorized motion to make sure the rules of armed self-defense, private liberty, and the possession of arms are defended, secured, and restored. By means of public training 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.
