Minnesota ban on 18- to 20-year-olds obtaining handgun permits is unconstitutional, federal appeals court says | CNN Politics
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Minnesota’s ban on 18- to 20-year-olds obtaining a permit to publicly carry a handgun violates the US Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
  • FireTower@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 months ago

    The founding fathers were famously divided on federal power. The 2nd amendment is their compromise.

    Factually wrong. See Federalist and Antifederalist Papers.

      • FireTower@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        Evidently not.

        THE power of regulating the militia and of commanding its services in times of insurrection and invasion are natural incidents to the duties of superintending the common defence, and of watching over the internal peace of the confederacy.

        It requires no skill in the science of war to discern that uniformity in the organization and discipline of the militia would be attended with the most beneficial effects, whenever they were called into service for the public defence. - Federalist 29