SAF Files Amicus Brief Challenging 18-20 Carry Ban in Pennsylvania

BELLEVUE, Wash. — March 18, 2026 — The Second Modification Basis (SAF) and its companions filed an amicus temporary with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court docket difficult the state’s firearms carry ban by 18–20-year-olds.

The temporary was filed in help of the appellant in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Kareem Mohammed Williams Jr., and challenges the state’s prohibition of law-abiding 18-to-20-year-olds carrying firearms for self-defense. SAF joined the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation and Firearm Homeowners In opposition to Crime within the amicus submitting.

“Pennsylvania’s ban defies Bruen by denying younger adults their Second Modification rights with none historic custom of such age-based restrictions on the Founding,” stated SAF Director of Authorized Analysis and Schooling Kostas Moros. “Historical past exhibits that 18-to-20-year-olds weren’t solely a part of ‘the Individuals’ protected by the Second Modification however had been required to maintain and bear arms for militia and self-defense functions. We urge the Court docket to reverse the decrease courtroom ruling and acknowledge that this subset of adults is afforded the identical basic proper to self-defense as different Individuals who’re 21 and older.”

The case impacts hundreds of peaceful adults below 21-years-old in Pennsylvania who’re barred from exercising their proper to hold arms for defense, regardless of clear historic proof such bans lack Founding-era help. SAF is at present difficult the identical core challenge in Paris v. Second Modification Basis, which is pending earlier than the U.S. Supreme Court docket.

“SAF has made defending the rights of younger adults a precedence in numerous circumstances, and this amicus temporary helps additional that goal,” stated SAF founder and Govt Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “SAF is proud to affix the opposite amicus events on this effort to make sure that Pennsylvania could not proceed to strip law-abiding residents of their constitutional protections.”

For extra info go to SAF.org.

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 america 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 public schooling initiatives, SAF teaches the significance of the Second Modification to advertise a society that values and workouts the proper to maintain and bear arms.