Firearms Policy Coalition sues Louisiana over its under-21 carry permit ban

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What we know

The Firearms Policy Coalition has filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana. The challenge targets Louisiana's ban on carry permits for individuals under 21 years of age.

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⚖ The Constitutional Angle

Under Bruen, carrying a handgun for self-defense is covered by the Second Amendment's plain text, so Louisiana must justify its under-21 carry ban by showing consistency with the Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation. McDonald makes that Amendment bind the states. The slices do not settle whether founding-era analogues for age-based carry limits exist.

New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Kevin P. Bruen, Superintendent of New York State Police 597 U.S. 1 (2022)

Vote: 6-3 · Opinion: Thomas

New York's requirement that applicants demonstrate 'proper cause' — a special need for self-protection distinguishable from the general community — to obtain an unrestricted public-carry license violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in public. The Court held the Second Amendment protects a right to carry handguns publicly for self-defense, and rejected the two-step means-end framework lower courts had applied after Heller.

McDonald v. City of Chicago, Illinois 561 U.S. 742 (2010)

Vote: 5-4 · Opinion: Alito

The Second Amendment right recognized in Heller is fully applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. A four-Justice plurality incorporated the right via the Due Process Clause as fundamental to the Nation's scheme of ordered liberty and deeply rooted in its history and tradition; Justice Thomas supplied the fifth vote via the Privileges or Immunities Clause. The Seventh Circuit's judgment upholding Chicago's and Oak Park's handgun bans was reversed and remanded.

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