Age limit for buying AR-15 assault rifle 'on the table': White House

[ABX]

The White House said on Tuesday setting an age limit for buying AR-15-type assault rifles, the type purchased legally by a teenager who shot dead 17 people at a Florida high school last week, was under consideration.
"I think that's certainly something that's on the table for us to discuss and that we expect to come up over the next couple of weeks," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said at a daily briefing when asked if President Donald Trump believed there should be an age limit for the purchase of AR-15-type rifles.......

https://www.yahoo.com/news/age-limit-buying-ar-15-assault-rifle-table-211001833.html

[mountaineer]

Singling out this one semiautomatic rifle is one of the more bizarre aspects of this issue.

[edpc]

Columbine occurred during the assault weapons ban.  Almost the same amount of people were killed and no AR was used.  A handgun was used at VA Tech and almost twice as many were killed.  This road doesn’t end with the AR.  Everyone knows it.

[240B]

I don't want 16 year olds with weapons unless they are fighting with me or for me. Those guys will kill anybody. Because they are too young to know the result on them.


It is more than reasonable that the age to buy a weapon should at least match or exceed the age you need to be to buy a beer.

[mountaineer]

The Va Tech shooter used pistols, but let's not get sidetracked by facts.

[skeeter]

Singling out this one semiautomatic rifle is one of the more bizarre aspects of this issue.

Once the public at large accepts an AR15 ban then there's really no logical reason to oppose any semi auto firearm ban.

Once semi autos are banned then there's no logical reason to oppose any firearm ban.

[DB]

I don't want 16 year olds with weapons unless they are fighting with me or for me. Those guys will kill anybody. Because they are too young to know the result on them.


It is more than reasonable that the age to buy a weapon should at least match or exceed the age you need to be to buy a beer.

You obviously have never lived or worked on a ranch or farm. Weapons are necessary, even in the hands of a 13 year old. Blanket top down rules make little sense.

[musiclady]

Is this White House and this Congress really going to do this??

REALLY????

[WingNot]

This is knee jerk liberalism at its finest.  Happens every time one of the nutjobs killers catches the attention of the showfolkfags and your weak kneed politicians.

[roamer_1]

It is more than reasonable that the age to buy a weapon should at least match or exceed the age you need to be to buy a beer.

I was buying beer when I was 14. And I owned firearms way before that.

[musiclady]

This is knee jerk liberalism at its finest.  Happens every time one of the nutjobs killers catches the attention of the showfolkfags and your weak kneed politicians.

Yep.  Knee jerk liberalism from a "Republican" White House.....

[240B]

You obviously have never lived or worked on a ranch or farm. Weapons are necessary, even in the hands of a 13 year old. Blanket top down rules make little sense.

LOL. That made me laugh. I was shooting a 12g when I was ten years old. But I did not ever own the gun. My father gave it to me. I didn't even know where they were.


Ducks were my favorite food growing up.

[DB]

LOL. That made me laugh. I was shooting a 12g when I was ten years old. But I did not ever own the gun. My father gave it to me. I didn't even know where they were.


Ducks were my favorite food growing up.

Sounds like I made a bad assumption... So why would you deny others that experience?

[240B]

Sounds like I made a bad assumption... So why would you deny others that experience?

@DB


None. Nothing. Not denying anybody anything.
A father giving a child a gun, and teaching him what a gun is, what it is for, and how to be responsible with it, is far different from a pissed off 18yr old crackhead buying a gun.


Apples and oranges. not the same thing at all.

[DB]

@DB


None. Nothing. Not denying anybody anything.
A father giving a child a gun, and teaching him what a gun is, what it is for, and how to be responsible with it, is far different from a pissed off 18yr old crackhead buying a gun.


Apples and oranges. not the same thing at all.

So how is that statement reconciled with this one:

"I don't want 16 year olds with weapons unless they are fighting with me or for me. Those guys will kill anybody. Because they are too young to know the result on them.


It is more than reasonable that the age to buy a weapon should at least match or exceed the age you need to be to buy a beer."

[aligncare]

Once the public at large accepts an AR15 ban then there's really no logical reason to oppose any semi auto firearm ban.

Once semi autos are banned then there's no logical reason to oppose any firearm ban.

Once the public at large large learns that an AR15 is only cosmetically different from virtually any other semi automatic rifle, the question of banning will come back off the table. This is a teachable moment. Let’s have that debate. Democrats love to obscure the facts, we have a chance now to clarify them,

[240B]

So how is that statement reconciled with this one:

"I don't want 16 year olds with weapons unless they are fighting with me or for me. Those guys will kill anybody. Because they are too young to know the result on them.

That is overseas stuff. Killing a person is not what it seems, unless you are a true clinical psychopath. These kids may think they are just having fun, now. But when they hit 40+ it is going to bite them. It will bite hard.

[txradioguy]

Is this White House and this Congress really going to do this??

REALLY????

@musiclady

Florida is moving that way in the statehouse...Rubio is in favor of what they're doing.

Trump just directed the DoJ to ban bumpstocks.

So yeah I'd say it's a safe bet they will do this in 2018.

[driftdiver]

@musiclady

Florida is moving that was in the statehouse...Rubio is in favor of what they're doing.

Trump just directed the DoJ to ban bumpstocks.

So yeah I'd say it's a safe bet they will do this in 2018.

The Florida bill to ban ar15s failed today

[txradioguy]

The Florida bill to ban ar15s failed today

That's good news.

Though it ruins my excuse I was gonna use with my wife to get a Mini-14

[roamer_1]

That's good news.

Though it ruins my excuse I was gonna use with my wife to get a Mini-14

Work quick.. she might not know yet.

[thackney]

I don't want 16 year olds with weapons unless they are fighting with me or for me. Those guys will kill anybody. Because they are too young to know the result on them.


It is more than reasonable that the age to buy a weapon should at least match or exceed the age you need to be to buy a beer.

We will have to disagree.

My children by age 16 were responsible shooters with semi-autos, as was I and my brother, as was my father and his brothers.

I'm sorry for you that your upbringing was lacking.

[240B]

We will have to disagree.

My children by age 16 were responsible shooters with semi-autos, as was I and my brother, as was my father and his brothers.

I'm sorry for you that your upbringing was lacking.

ok

[roamer_1]

We will have to disagree.

My children by age 16 were responsible shooters with semi-autos, as was I and my brother, as was my father and his brothers.

I'm sorry for you that your upbringing was lacking.

Heck yeah. I was whacking coyotes,  gophers, and feral cats for money way before that... between varmints and trapping, I bought a 63 Chevy pickup, and built it's motor and had it running by the time I got my license at 14.  I went to take the driving test in that ol truck.

[Suppressed]

Yep.  Knee jerk liberalism from a "Republican" White House.....

But we knew he was a liberal when he was elected, so it's okay.
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