The order by U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez in St. Paul is the latest in a series of legal defeats for state gun control measures following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year expanding gun rights nationwide.
The state’s 21-year age minimum, enacted as part of a 2003 gun control law, had been challenged in a 2021 lawsuit by three gun rights groups – Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, Firearms Policy Coalition and Second Amendment Foundation – and three individuals.
“This is a resounding victory for 18- to 20-year-old adults who wish to exercise their Constitutional right to bear arms,” Bryan Strawser, chair of Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, said in a statement.
The office of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, and the state’s Department of Public Safety, which is named as a defendant in the lawsuit, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The plaintiffs argued in their lawsuit that the age minimum violated the Second Amendment…
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