The ink is barely dry on the Wolford decision, yet the same anti-gun groups that spent years insisting the Second Amendment stops at the schoolhouse door are already dusting off their favorite talking points—this time claiming that 18-to-20-year-olds simply cannot be trusted with the fundamental right to keep and bear arms. What they refuse to acknowledge is that the same age cohort has long shouldered the responsibilities of citizenship: serving in the military, signing contracts, and, yes, voting. By treating young adults as perpetual children only when firearms are involved, these activists reveal that their real target is not “public safety” but the steady erosion of a constitutional right they have never accepted.

For the 2A community the lesson is clear: litigation victories are not permanent truces. The same organizations that lost in Wolford are already shopping for friendlier venues, new plaintiffs, and friend-of-the-court briefs that recycle the tired “sensitive places” and “historical tradition” arguments the Supreme Court rejected in Bruen. Grass-roots groups and state attorneys general must therefore treat every lower-court win as the start of the next defensive campaign—filing early, building robust factual records, and preparing appeals that lock in the principle that law-abiding adults enjoy the full protection of the Second Amendment regardless of which birthday cake they last blew out.