The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging a Massachusetts statute which bans young adults in the 18-to-20 age group from acquiring, possessing or carrying any semiautomatic firearm of any type or any handgun. The case is known as Escher v. Noble.
Joining SAF are the National Rifle Association, Gun Owners Action League, Commonwealth Second Amendment, Firearms Policy Coalition and a private citizen, Mack Escher, for whom the case is named. They are represented by attorneys Jason Guida with a law office in Saugus, Mass., and David H. Thompson, Peter A. Patterson and William V. Bergstrom at Cooper & Kirk in Washington, D.C. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Named as defendants are Col. Geoffrey Noble, superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police, and Heath J. Eldredge, chief of police in Brewster, Mass., in their official capacities.
Plaintiffs are challenging provisions of Massachusetts law enacted with passage of H.B. 4885, signed in July 2024 by Gov. Maura Healey.
“Massachusetts’s law barring 18-20-year-olds from being able to acquire, possess, and carry commonly possessed firearms fails to comport with the Constitution’s command,” said SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut. “These adult individuals are entitled to the full scope of the Second Amendment’s protections, yet the State has opted to affirmatively treat them as if they have less rights. An honest look at our nation’s history and tradition will only yield one result, that is, this law is blatantly unconstitutional.”
“Federal law allows for legal action against states that deprive individuals of federal constitutional rights under color of state law,” explained SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “State legislatures that adopt such restrictive laws invariably mask their motives by claiming they are ‘gun safety’ measures, but this isn’t about guns, it’s about rights. It’s time for anti-gun officials in Massachusetts and elsewhere to understand that.”
For more information, visit saf.org.
It isn’t enough that these laws are overturned. The people responsible for voting for them need to be drummed out of office, the judges ruling in the affirmative on them and the officials signing them into law, need to be imprisoned.
Agreed.
This is especially egregious because the law restricted the rights of 18 year old ADULTS. Men and women who can sign legal contracts, including a contract to go fight and die in our military.
If ever there is an open-and-shut case, it SHOULD be this one.
But we’re probably not going to get our red meat (videos of politicians being perp-walked to prison, and being reminded that they themselves cannot possess firearms while in prison).
The best we can probably hope for is to make them lose their next elections by an order of magnitude. They still won’t learn their lesson if they just retire to Martha’s Vineyard as one of Barack’s best buds and go play golf with him a couple times each week, but at least they’ll be out of power.
keep them as minors for 25yrs.
I can’t swear to it, but I THINK I have some family members who did that.
25 is way too late for weaning.
The problem with not kicking our little birdies out of the nest is that without proper motivation, they’ll never learn how to fly, feed themselves, avoid predators, and if they choose, find a mate and make little chickies of their own.
Do’oh see below for response to this one.
No law keeps someone from doing what they want to do.
There is ALWAYS a percentage of people who will do something they don’t like or not do something they want to, just because of law; whether it is the law of man (don’t smoke MJ or you can’t work for a federal contractor) or the law of God (thou shalt not murder).
The law of God keeps a lot more of us on the straight and narrow than anybody will admit.
It never ceases to amaze me the lack of creative thinking in face of how stacked the system is against anyone under 40 owning a home. Charge your kids rent to get them used to the idea/difficulty of real life and increase it the longer they stay. Set the rent money aside in a separate account that when they move out you give them access to for purposes of a down payment. Whether you tell them or not is up to your kids personality. Kids need to learn to survive but let’s not pretend success got easier in the last 40 years especially with education and home ownership costs vs income.
The head les.bi@.n in charge doesn’t think your children should have guns. She is as anti-civil rights as any former Confederate States of America governor.
If it’s Gov. Newsom or Pritzker or Hochul pushing whatever stupid restriction is currently in fashion, do you note that they’re heterosexual? Homosexual politicians have no monopoly on authoritarian gun control.
(Anti-gun groups iove interest) Q̶u̶e̶e̶n̶ Pesident of Mexico and Murdering-Child-Raping-Narco-Violence Terrorist Leader Claudia Sheinbaum tries Blackmailing America: Delcaring Gun Makers As Terror Groups?!?
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Mexico’s Very Dangerous Game of Chicken With Your Second Amendment Rights.
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Colorado – $1 million $$$ Bloomberg Everytown funded whiny coward deflecting Democrat: 2A petitions from Coloradans are trash – to not attack 6 million Coloradans constitutional rights Democrat wants ‘bribe’ concessions with ‘give-n-take’.
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BREAKING – left-wing democrat and left-wing fake news, again, and lies yet again: Falsely claims Elon Musk leaked classified data on DOGE website. (note: in reality the information posted is not classified information – its actually public FedScope data, posted publicly by OPM, AKA Office of Personnel Management, in March 2024).
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To not be outdone by the U.K. and every European country … Germany, your insane left-wing marx -ist social -list Hitler’esque tyranny is showing: We Have To Censor People to Promote Free Speech.
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In the ‘unburdened by what has been’ department: Kamala’s Boozy Broadway Debut Includes Catered Word Salads for Cast and Crew.
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The link says “world-salad”. I haven’t tried it yet; just thought I’d give you a heads’ up. 😀
Link works
Is It Still There? Rand Paul Wants Elon and DOGE to Audit Fort Knox and Its $425B Gold Reserve.
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This is what you get. When you vote a ho-mo.se.xu:al into office. Because g@ys are so:cia; list pro-gres:sive in their political 0rient:@tion.
broad brush. i know many who are not.
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You say that. But most vote left. Many did vote for Trump in 2016 and in 2024. But being a supporter of a republican will get you called a child molester, by other ho:mo;sex,u:als.
That’s why they stay in the closet. But they can come out of the closet and take children to g@y cro,ss d.res:sing str;ip shows.
We Tracked The Flow Of (tax-payer) Money From USAID To Anti-Gun Groups! Here Is The Break Down! (note: guess also who got paid – David Hogg got some of your tax dollars in his salary from his grifting front ‘march for our lives’ organization).
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