Posted on 02/17/2018 8:04:14 AM PST by mdittmar
Brings rules for rifle sales in line with handguns, which already requires minimum 21 years of age
Washington—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today announced she will introduce legislation to raise the age requirement for purchasing rifles from gun dealers, including assault weapons like the AR-15, to 21 years.
“Under current law, licensed gun dealers cannot sell a handgun to anyone under 21, but they are allowed to sell assault rifles like the AR-15 to anyone over 18. This policy is dangerous and makes absolutely no sense.
“I plan to introduce a bill to require all firearms purchases from gun dealers be restricted to individuals who are at least 21 years old. If you can’t buy a handgun or a bottle of beer, you shouldn’t be able to buy an AR-15.
“This is common sense and I hope my Republican colleagues will join me in this effort.”
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The only one that needs a psych eval is DiFi. :-)
Will she add a rider that makes it illegal to kill someone also?
Works for me.
Maybe she’ll think that people under 18 in the armed forces shouldn’t have a gun either until they’re 21.
How about a minimum age for being prescribed certain prescription drugs absent certain clear criteria?
The answer just needs to be NO. No debate , no discussion , no gun control, the end. Stop the debate, shut down any dialog. We had this discussion in 1776 and our side one.
Even 21 may be too young for this crop of perpetual adolescence. Maybe 24 would be better.
Won, lol. I need to stop posting from my iphone
“Under current law, licensed gun dealers cannot sell a handgun to anyone under 21, but they are allowed to sell assault rifles like the AR-15 to anyone over 18.***
A law made in 1968, signed by Lyndon Johnson.
“Today we begin to disarm the criminal and the careless and the insane. All of our people who are deeply concerned in this country about law and order should hail this day.”- Lyndon Johnson signing the 1968 Gun Control Act into law.
So, under Feinstein’s bill, an 18 year old cannot purchase a rifle, ammo or handgun, but they can still VOTE.
I purchased my first rifle at 18 from an army surplus store. no background check, cash and carry, no problem. Bought my first handgun in California. Cash, three day waiting period, no background check. The years were 1964 and 1967 and sanity still had some rule in America.
Then in 1968, Bobby Kennedy was murdered and a wave of anti-gun hysteria prevailed that has not let up in the last fifty years.
Retire DiFi. That would be “common sense” legislation control.
I would support her, providing the voting age was raised in conjunction. See how far that goes with the Democrats.
I understand the sentiment, but this would be an error. A lot of good/great men are made from guys who were kind of lost at 18 and spent a couple of years in the military.
Damn, I guess that’s me out. Got my first rifle - a .22/.410 over and under at age 11.
How about a bill authorizing level 3 holsters, free training, and the 9mm of their choice to all school teachers?
Liberalism killed the network that recognizes and intervenes in these troubled youth's lives. There use to be separation of lawbreakers from the law abiding society. Liberalism has ensured that every douchbag, scheming, jerk-wad psychopath continues to mingle in our midst completely unchecked.
We can't even trust the statistics since liberals have not been reporting crimes when they occur in order to protect these lawbreakers from having records. It's liberalism that has blood on its hands, not gun makers and supporters of the second amendment.
Only legislation pertaining to budget/spending is supposed to originate in the HOR.
Any other legislation can originate in either House.
Set the age for the purchase of EITHER pistols or long guns at age 18, same as for the right to vote, or to act as an adult in every other aspect of life.
With one criteria: to obtain the right to purchase a firearm, much like the right to operate a motor vehicle on the public roads, a course of instruction MUST be followed before the license is issued.
Expose ALL youth, regardless of any other trait or factor, to the handling, care, feeding and use of firearms at a relatively early age, preferable before or during their high school years. Much as drivers education is pretty much mandated for early acquisition of a driver’s license, training in the proper protocols and rules for handling weaponry capable of sending a projectile along an aimed path would serve to drive home the lesson that gunplay is no joke. Further training in the techniques of selecting suitable targets, aiming, properly discharging the weapon, and being able to account for the consequences, would have the objective of instilling a sense of responsibility in the novice.
Yes, we are dealing with a device that could potentially maim or kill. But the same may be said of tools used in shop class, or of motor vehicles, and millions manage to grow up anyway even in the presences of these hazardous pieces of equipment, so long as they obey the rules set down, rules that were painfully worked out in the past and have the practical aspect of actually being effective.
In the process of giving this training on as nearly universal a basis as practical, some few of the aspirants will prove to be unfit, for one reason or another, to have weaponry in their possession, as they may lack impulse control, or simply be a malevolent personality.This identification should be relatively simple to spot early on, and appropriate action taken to assure these inept or troubled persons are steered into a set of circumstances in which authorities could monitor their actions.
Oh, yeah. And take away this fanatical mandate that schools and most other public places are designated as “gun-free zones”.
“Are we going to raise the minimum age to vote back up to 21 as well?”
Are we going to make 21 the minimum age to decide:
To undergo medical therapy/procedures if you believe you are transgender?
To have an abortion without parental permission?
To enter contracts and have other adult rights/permissions, like getting married?
Will 21 be the minimum age at which one can be tried as an adult?
Stupid.
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