SAF Files Response Brief with SCOTUS in Minnesota Carry Case

BELLEVUE, Wash. — March 10, 2025 — Attorneys representing the Second Modification Basis (SAF) and its companions, in a case difficult the State of Minnesota’s prohibition on licensed hid carry by younger adults ages 18-20, have filed a response temporary with the U.S. Supreme Courtroom encouraging the justices to “grant plenary evaluate and set the case for argument.” 

The case is called Jacobson v. Price, initially filed in June 2021 as Price v. Harrington. SAF is joined by the Minnesota Gun House owners Caucus, Firearms Coverage Coalition, and three non-public residents, Kristin Price, for whom the case is known as, Austin Dye, and Axel Anderson. Whereas all three have turned 21, the Eighth Circuit Courtroom granted a movement to complement the report and permit one other particular person, Joe Knudsen, to hold the criticism. They’re represented by attorneys David H. Thompson, Peter A. Patterson, John D. Ohlendorf and William V. Bergstrom at Cooper & Kirk in Washington, D.C. 

SAF gained this case at trial and on the appeals court docket degree. Minnesota is interesting the ruling. 

“Immediately’s submitting is exclusive in that we’re agreeing with Minnesota’s request in asking the Supreme Courtroom to listen to our case to resolve a dispute between the circuits,” mentioned SAF Government Director Adam Kraut. “The decrease courts aren’t unanimous of their method to the Second Modification rights of 18-20-year-olds. It will be important that the Courtroom weigh in to substantiate that 18-20-year-olds are a part of ‘the Individuals’ and the Second Modification applies in full to these people. The ban Minnesota seeks to uphold eviscerates the correct of these adults to have the ability to carry a firearm for self-defense. That is patently unconstitutional and whereas we prevailed on the court docket of appeals, the Supreme Courtroom wants to make sure all of the decrease courts attain the right consequence. By taking this case, they’ll do exactly that.” 

“A transparent majority of federal courts have already protected the Second Modification rights of younger adults,” added SAF founder and Government Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “As we word in our temporary, we aren’t conscious of any proof of colonial or Founding-era legal guidelines limiting 18-to-20-year-olds from their proper to maintain and bear arms. Certainly, historical past is filled with proof that folks on this age group weren’t prevented from holding or carrying their very own arms.” 

For extra info, go to saf.org. 

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 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 means of public training initiatives, SAF teaches the significance of the Second Modification to advertise a society that values and workout routines the correct to maintain and bear arms.