The 2nd Amendment continued to rack up some much-needed wins in 2025, as Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed multiple pieces of legislation last week — one of which changes the state's law to grant 18-year-olds the right to own and carry handguns.
Come July 1, 2025, 18-year-old Iowans (who are already considered legally old enough to be potentially drafted and sent to war for their country) will be allowed by law to possess and carry handguns. 18-year-old Iowans were already eligible to own long guns.
From the Des Moines Register:
The Iowa Senate voted 33-14 on April 7 to pass and send the bill to Reynolds' desk. Every Republican except Sens. Charlie McClintock, R-Alburnett, and Ken Rozenboom, R-Pella, voted for the bill. All Democrats but Sens. Tony Bisignano, D-Des Moines, and Bill Dotzler, D-Waterloo, opposed the bill.
Iowa Democrats, as Democrats generally do, opposed the changes to the state law on the grounds that instances of firearm injuries and death will increase. Those concerns, however, have not stood in the way of similar changes to laws in states across the country.
The bill follows several recent court decisions across the country, including in New Orleans, Virginia, and Minnesota, that ruled against the federal law requiring Americans to be 21 to buy handguns. The rulings have served as a test of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 Bruen decision that expanded the Second Amendment.
Keep on "testing" those rulings, states. Meanwhile, here's a sneak peek at the Christmas wish lists for 18-year-old Iowa men for 2025:
God Bless America.
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