Cam has already talked about some of the shenanigans surrounding the Firearms Policy Coalition's challenge to Louisiana's concealed carry permit ban for adults under 21. It's enough to piss you off, so you know the FPC had something...pithy to say about that on X. It's how they roll, and if you don't love it, that's fine. You have a right to be wrong.
But something else about their style I like besides their social media jabs?
The fact that they keep pushing for gun rights, as they're doing now by asking for an injunction.
Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced today that it has filed a motion for preliminary injunction in its Pool v. Besson lawsuit, asking the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana to immediately block Louisiana’s ban on handgun carry permits for 18-to-20-year-old adults.
The lawsuit is brought by Louisiana residents Ella Pool, Christian McDuffie, and Charles Matthews, along with FPC. Each individual plaintiff is a peaceable adult between the ages of 18 and 20 who is legally eligible to possess firearms and would apply for a Louisiana concealed handgun permit, but is prevented from doing so because of the State’s age restriction.
Louisiana generally allows adults 18 and older to carry a concealed handgun without a permit. But the State still prohibits 18-to-20-year-old adults from obtaining a Louisiana concealed handgun permit. That ban has significant real-world consequences, including restrictions on carrying within 1,000 feet of school grounds under federal law and the denial of legal protections Louisiana grants to permit holders.
But this lawsuit could have been avoided if Louisiana had simply fixed the constitutional problem when FPC first raised it.
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“We told Louisiana about this constitutional problem and gave them a simple way to fix it in early 2025. And by then, the Fifth Circuit had already made clear in our Reese v. ATF victory that the rights of 18-to-20-year-old adults are protected under the Second Amendment. Louisiana had ample notice, a perfect solution, and two legislative sessions to act. They refused. That’s on the State,” said FPC President Brandon Combs.
FPC’s motion argues that Louisiana’s ban cannot survive the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment test. The Fifth Circuit has already held in FPC’s Reese win that 18-to-20-year-old adults are part of “the people” protected by the Second Amendment and that there is no historical tradition supporting categorical firearm restrictions against them. FPC is asking the court to immediately block enforcement of Louisiana’s 21-year-old minimum age requirement while the case proceeds so that 18-to-20-year-old adults can apply for a carry permit.
Basically, the FPC gave Louisiana every out possible, and despite being a state in the Deep South, where you'd expect guns to be appreciated, they declined to do what was right.
So now they're in court, trying to scramble to protect a law that is indefensible and will likely get swatted down by the Supreme Court like a mosquito in the bayou during a Labor Day cookout.
At least, that's what we hope.
See, the problem here is that too many courts actually do buy into the inane argument that because people weren't considered adults until 21 back in colonial times, treating legal adults today by those rules is perfectly acceptable. They're not looking at the analogy in terms of what those laws were meant to do and what actual impact they had, but how they can excuse their own anti-gun biases and pretend they're still just upholding the law.
They forget that children, even by our standards today, openly walked around with firearms and no one even blinked. These were needed because of the threat of things like wild animals, hostile criminals, and native tribes resentful of losing their land. Young people matured differently because the stakes were so much higher, and while some laws may have forbidden them from buying guns, that didn't stop them from carrying them.
Hopefully, I'm worrying over nothing, because I'd like to think the Supreme Court has enough sense to see through this stupidity.
Lord knows, someone needs to.
