Stupid and/or Desperate?

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Minnesota cites common law evidence that (as minors) 18 to 20-year-olds did not have full rights. Minnesota, however, does not put forward common law analogues restricting the right to bear arms. Instead, Minnesota points to statutory law, such as the Militia Act of 1792 that required 18 to 20-year-olds to acquire firearms, as evidence the common law was the inverse. See The Militia Act of 1792, ch. 33, 1 Stat. 271, § 1. A mandate to acquire a firearm is hardly “evidence” that one was previously prohibited from owning one.

Duane Benton
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
July 15, 2024
Worth-Opinion.pdf (saf.org)
Kristin Worth; Austin Dye; Axel Anderson; Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus; Second Amendment Foundation; Firearms Policy Coalition, Inc.

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Bob Jacobson, in his individual capacity and in his official capacity as Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety

Kyle Burton, in his individual capacity and in his official capacity as Sheriff of Mille Lacs County, Minnesota; Dan Starry, in his individual capacity and in his official capacity as Sheriff of Washington County, Minnesota; Troy Wolbersen, in his individual capacity and in his official capacity as Sheriff of Douglas County, Minnesota Defendants

Judges, Smith, Benton, and Stras unanimously held that Minnesota’s law banning 18-year old’s from carrying arms in public is unconstitutional. I found it amusing Minnesota would cite a law requiring 18-year old’s to acquire a firearm in support of their insistence that 18-year old’s can be denied the right to carry arms. Are they really that stupid? And/or that desperate?

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2 thoughts on “Stupid and/or Desperate?

  1. That’s what you get when your a busy AG and your newly hired DEI-IED clerk finds the citation case for you?
    Or maybe you’re just a DEI hired Soros loving AG that truly couldn’t think your way out of a paper bag?
    Either way, sounds like their argument went off like an IED in Judge Benton’s court.
    F–king ouch! That’s funny!

  2. As a political and economic refugee from the Soviet Socialist State of Minnesota I can guarantee you that the overwhelming majority of people in the state government there are either:
    – Corrupt
    – Stupid
    – Utterly incompetent
    – Power-hungry
    …or some combination of those. They are collectivist, statist, authoritarians who never pass up a chance to violate the rights of the citizens in order to expand their perceived power and control over those citizens.

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