GOP lawmakers want to let teens buy handguns before they can buy beer

[turbinetree]

By Josh Israel -April 30, 2021 12:50 PM

Ten House Republicans are trying to lower the legal age for handgun purchases to 18.

A group of House Republicans wants to lower the legal age for handgun purchases, hoping to let young people acquire a firearm before they can buy beer or tobacco. Gun safety advocates say this would bring more gun violence and suicides.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Wednesday filed H.R. 2890 "to reduce, from 21 years of age to 18 years of age, the minimum age at which a person may obtain a handgun from a Federal firearms licensee." The current federal limits do not apply to guns obtained privately and through unlicensed sellers, but some state laws do.

Massie tweeted on Thursday that he is calling this bill the "Second Amendment For Every Registrable Voter ACT," or the SAFER Voter Act.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/gop-house-representatives-gun-purchases-minimum-age-massie-brooks/

ALEC must have come up with these fucking names for this shit.......and anyone that co-sponsors this that objected to the election should not be on the bill.......

[kacekwl]

1. Hey it's the 2nd amendment and can't be abated so

let's let everyone at any age have a gun. And of course any type of gun is fine because freedom and fucking liberty you know. Damn idiots the lot of them.

[tanyev]

2. Well sure. How else you gonna open the beer?

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

3. Soon it will be daddy sending little Johnny to the corner store to grab a gun.

Don't forget bullets. Your little sister can carry them.