Pennsylvania laws imposing restrictions on gun possession for young people are unconstitutional, a federal appeals court said in a new, split ruling.
A panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reconsidered whether Pennsylvania’s ban on 18- to 20-year-olds openly carrying guns during emergencies was constitutional after the U.S. Supreme Court in 2024 remanded the case back to the circuit court.
A majority of the panel said their previous decision, which concluded that the law violates the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, was correct even in light of recent Supreme Court rulings that struck down a New York gun law and upheld a federal gun law. The rulings are known as Bruen and Rahimi….