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Title: Trump Open to Raising ‘Minimum Age for Owning Certain Firearms’ (accepts Geraldo Rivera's suggestion)
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern ... m-age-owning-certain-firearms/
Published: Feb 22, 2018
Author: AWR Hawkins
Post Date: 2018-02-22 01:40:02 by Hondo68
Keywords: None
Views: 1500
Comments: 21
A “White House source” informed Fox News that President Trump is open to raising the “minimum age for owning certain firearms.”
The federal minimum age for purchasing a handgun is 21-years old while the minimum age for purchasing a long gun is 18. The ability to buy long guns at age 18 came under scrutiny after 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz carried an AR-15 into a gun-free zone in Florida and opened fire on students, killing 17.
Fox News reports that Trump is “open to…a rise in the minimum age for owning certain firearms” in the wake of the Florida attack.
This news emerged on the same day that Trump directed the DOJ to finalize plans to ban bump stocks amid the current gun control outcry. It also came on the day that NRP’s Mara Liasson asked White House Press Sarah Sanders if Trump would be willing to reinstate the 1994-2004 federal “assault weapons” ban. Sanders replied, “We haven’t close doors on any front.”
The Washington Post reports that the idea of raising minimum age for gun purchases came up while Trump was having dinner with Geraldo Rivera.
Riveria suggested “raising the minimum age at which a person could buy a semiautomatic weapon from 18 to 21.”
The AP reports the White House confirmed “the idea of raising the age limit to buy an AR-15 was on the table for discussion.”
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The Washington Post reports that the idea of raising minimum age for gun purchases came up while Trump was having dinner with Geraldo Rivera.Riveria suggested “raising the minimum age at which a person could buy a semiautomatic weapon from 18 to 21.”
Well that would be a start, they couldn't get weapons while in school, but how about extending that to all firearms and other lethal devices like cross bows and compound bows.
really the time for removing military grade weapons from the general population has come, it came long ago
#7. To: paraclete (#1)
You do realize that more people die from the pistol than "Assault" weapons?
I even believe that more people are killed with knives and bats than "Assault" weapons.
This is all about propaganda of the socialist who want to push their agenda using tragedies which is disgusting and if we had a real media they would be hammered for their BS.
#8. To: Justified (#7)
You do realize that more people die from the pistol than "Assault" weapons?
Yes but "assault" weapons appear to be the weapon of choice for mass shooters. Whether the population should be armed is a different debate than whether assault weapons should be available to the general population. Take away the devices of mass murder and you make it less viable for these people to attempt mass murder. They may still attack but the casualty list will be smaller. With proper checks on ownership they may not even be able to gain access to their weapon of choice. I don't know why this is so difficult to understand. Guns in the hands of those who should not have them kill people.
You need to loose the hillbilly mentality, you are no longer roaming the woods or in danger of indian attack
#12. To: paraclete, All (#8)
This is representative of what I found and so I just choses this chart for ease of relating data.
The second graph puts into prospective of real violence. The number one killer of people by firearms is pistols and rifles are not even close. You are more likely to be killed by a shotgun than an "Assault rifle"!
Like I said its MSM socialist propaganda that is pushed and childish minds suck it up as truths!
#13. To: Justified (#12) (Edited)
You are more likely to be killed by a shotgun than an "Assault rifle"!
I agree the debate has been hijacked by emotion. Yes the carnage wrought by assault rifles is small relative to their presence in the population, however the carnage has been rising since the ban has been lifted because they are a weapon of choice and the imagination of sick minds and obviously it is too easy to buy one. You left the statistics for hand guns out of your graph, I wonder why
The real debate is why vested interests are allowed to dictate policy when lives are at stake and there are many who are killed by guns. The presence of so much violence in the community has to be tackled, and whether that is drugs, mental health or weapons of all types there needs to be a real effort
I saw a video made by an ex military officer and he made the case very plainly. The AR-15 is an accurate weapon on single shot but highly inaccurate on rapid fire and he was a trained shooter. Why then are untrained people allowed to possess them? Why also are people allowed to possess military style shotguns capable of inflicting equal carnage?
#14. To: paraclete (#13)
We will keep our guns despite the little girl from Australia getting all hysterical and whining about it.
You don't have a voice.
#15. To: A K A Stone (#14)
You don't have a voice.
Nor do the victims
#16. To: paraclete (#15)
If you lived in South Africa. Would you think you had a right to a gun? Or would you just let the blacks take your land without compensation?
#17. To: All (#16)
Well what about South Africans for the third time.
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