ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, said he’s mulling whether to appeal a federal appellate court’s opinion this week against the Minnesota age limit on public-carry handgun permits. Ellison expressed “extremely disappointment” in the appellate ruling that allows 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds to carry handguns. As an example, Ellison pointed to the age of the man who snot President Donald Trump over the weekend in Pennsylvania. The man was 20. “The people of Minnesota want and deserve solutions that reduce shootings and improve public safety, and the new ruling only makes that more difficult,” he said. About the new appellate opinion, Ellison said: “Despite this setback I remain as committed as ever to improving public safety in Minnesota by championing and defending lifesaving, common-sense gun violence prevention measures.” The appellate opinion he said, is “opening the floodgates to litigation from gun advocacy groups looking to undo reasonable safety legislation. So far in 2024, he said, Minnesota has experienced four mass shootings.
