PA: Age Restriction Lawsuit Update for Blair County

You may have seen the following alert where NRA along with Firearms Policy Coalition and two individuals filed a federal lawsuit in western Pennsylvania challenging Pennsylvania's prohibition on concealed carry by adults under 21. 

Pennsylvania law sets forth the parameters and requirements for the issuance of carry licenses in the Commonwealth. Because Sheriff James E. Ott is the state-mandated licensing authority in Blair County and the enforcer of the challenged regulatory scheme, he was necessarily named in the Young v. Ott lawsuit in his professional and not personal capacity. To learn more about why some officials are named in lawsuits see, e.g., https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/proper_party. Over the years, Sheriff Ott has been a valued partner in many of NRA's efforts to defend Second Amendment rights, including by serving as Friends of the NRA treasurer. NRA is grateful for his partnership. All too often, however, anti-gun states make local officials enforce their unconstitutional laws, and those officials must be named as defendants in challenges to those laws.

Please stay tuned to www.nraila.org for future updates on NRA-ILA’s ongoing efforts to defend your constitutional rights, and please visit https://www.nraila.org/legal-legislation/current-litigation/ to keep up to date on NRA-ILA’s ongoing litigation efforts.