Federal lawsuit challenges Pa. age requirement to be 21 to obtain a license to carry – By Paula Reed Ward (Trib Live) / Oct 19 2020
Three young adults, including one from Verona, are suing the Pennsylvania State Police commissioner because they say state statutes prevent them from legally carrying and transporting firearms.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court in Pittsburgh with the support of two national nonprofits, asks that statutes requiring a person to be 21 to obtain a license to carry firearms be declared unconstitutional under the Second and Fourteenth amendments.
The plaintiffs in the suit — Verona’s Madison M. Lara, Logan Miller of Boyertown in Berks County and Sophia Knepley of Denver in Lancaster County — are all gun owners under 21. They also are members of the Sacramento, Calif.-based Firearms Policy Coalition, one of two national nonprofits that helped file the lawsuit. The other nonprofit, the Second Amendment Foundation, is based in the state of Washington.
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