Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire I think its troublesome that some think you need to be 18 to buy or own a firearm

I think its troublesome that some of you seem to agree with the age being 18 or older to purchase or own a firearm.

Because why?

I think SCOTUS should, when they deliver the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen ruling, include language to the effect the "the age to buy any firearm in any state will be the same age as that state requires to vote; and the ID requirements to purchase a firearm will be the same as that state requires to vote."

Which will, of course, cause the Democrat-run states and cities to revolt.

'Cause rights should not exist with differing standards between the rights.

At least according to me.

Some adults don’t need guns!! I don’t think it has much to do with age but it has a lot to do with gray matter.

The problem is when someone who doesn't believe anyone should own any guns gets to make the decision if we can buy one.

I like the idea of those pesky piece of papers called the constitution and BOR's.

No ages specified. Only thing specified is "shall not be infringed"

How about the age at which some have to register with selective service.

But they want you to vote for their communist asses when you are 18....

IMO, if they say your not mentally there until at least 21 they need to raise the age of selective to 21

Or in some Democrat run states, the proposal is 16!!!!

Raise that too

So you’ve got a 19-21 year old active duty Marine who’s been trained to fire artillery, mortars, full auto rifles and when he comes home on leave and he can’t buy a semi-auto version off the rifle he used to fire Expert. 🤬

TORO CRAPPO💩

No smokes, no chew, no gun.

It's a matter for the parents to decide, not the government, if a kid can have a gun before age 18, or even later so long as he's under their roof.

Raising the age to vote and to buy a firearm to 21 would be a good move for anyone not in the military. Would solve a lot of problems today!

Beat me to it. 21 to buy tobacco and alcohol is absolute bullshît. Let alone a firearm! We need sheriffs and governors that ignore such laws and refuse their enforcement.

The crime-prone age group is 15 to 25, it wouldn't bother me if this age group was more heavily scrutinized than other age groups when purchasing firearms.

Keep in mind that young adults in the military are in a very structured environment where access to firearms is tightly controlled and limited.

From the age of 7, I’d help my grandfather on his ranch doing kid things; collecting eggs daily from the hen house, feeding sheep, turning on the well pumps to irrigate.

I’d then be turned loose with a model 63 Winchester and a box of Super X Long Rifles to reek havoc on anything that moved in the bosque.

At the age of 10, I saved enough to go to Furr’s and put 10$ down on a Marlin model 60 with my dad. The sales guy obviously knew I was buying it and when I had the rest of the balance (30$), I picked it up with dad.

I routinely rode a bike there to buy ammo by myself.

.50¢ a box.

The first Browning pistol a friend of mine bought was from his high school teacher, who brought it to class to sell it to him afterwards.

In 4th Grade, we still had “Show and Tell”.

I used to hunt with a model 94 Winchester for deer from about 10 years old on. It was my Great Aunt’s.

For Christmas one year, she gave it to me. I was in heaven. I took it to class for “Show and Tell” that week and everyone in class got to come up front to handle it.

Too bad that's not how the constitution is worded.

What problems? We were 2 decades into almost record setting low homicide rates before the Democrats created their War on Cops and Defund the Police campaigns.

It’s not the guns that have gotten worse.
It’s not the people that have gotten worse.
It’s the Democrat policies that are killing people.