Posted March 2, 2018 1:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

These days, people are claiming that AR-15s are just too deadly for anyone under the age of 21 to have. They are convinced that raising the age limit on purchasing a rifle will have some kind of net effect on crime for some reason, despite only a tiny fraction of crimes being perpetrated with rifles of any kind.

One response to people who argue such a raise is ridiculous is that we already require people to be 21 to purchase handguns and rifles are far more dangerous.

It’s not a completely invalid point…which is where Kentucky’s Thomas Massie stepped in.

U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie has proposed H.R. 5112 which would reduce, from 21 to 18, the minimum age at which someone can obtain a handgun from a licensed gun dealer. The move is the polar opposite of recent proposals backed by gun control advocates, various lawmakers and even for a time President Trump, to raise the age for gun purchases from 18 to 21.

“If you raise the age to buy a long gun from 18 to 21 while keeping the age to buy a handgun at 21, you have completely extinguished the constitutionally guaranteed right of 20-year-old mothers to keep …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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