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Should the legal age to purchase firearms be 18?

A sliding scale of maturity seems wrong. We trust you to vote, fight, drive, get married, smoke, and determine your gender, shooting, yea that’s ok too. Drinking at the bar or buying a gun? Nope not that, you need to use dads guns and find a hobo to get that sixer for you.

Ridiculous
 
Im torn of this issue; but I think IF they have enlisted in the military THAT should be an exemption to purchase handguns etc, as in if they are will to fight for the country then they ought to be able to buy guns.

OTOH Ive seen some scarily stupid 18 year olds.

How'bout if we have a few simple tests, like can you write in cursive? Name the last five presidents? When was the Revolutionary war? Who are your senators? Name the prime numbers from 1 to 25? (OK that ones for bonus points)
 
Hertervillian said:
A sliding scale of maturity seems wrong. We trust you to vote, fight, drive, get married, smoke, and determine your gender, shooting, yea that’s ok too. Drinking at the bar or buying a gun? Nope not that, you need to use dads guns and find a hobo to get that sixer for you.

Ridiculous
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I agree with the sliding scale part being ridiculous. 18 or 21 for every thing. Maybe make it 19. One age for it all. No exemptions either.
 
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I too am torn on this topic. I do know that at 18 I was a real dumba$$ and probably not much wiser by 21. I also don't like the government having a double standard in that at 18 you're old enough to go to war but too young to buy a gun. At the same time the military will make an 18 year old "grow up" real quick.

I also believe there is a huge difference in kids regionally. Kids in rural areas are typically raised with firearms, taught how to safely use firearms, and they spend their afternoons working the family farm. Now go into the urban areas and you've got idiot kids with their pants half down their rears playing those kill 'em blast 'em online games all day long.

I don't know the answer and I am 2A down to the bone. When I've pondered this very same issue on my own, I'd be fine raising the age to 21.
 
I have mixed feelings about that.
If you live in the armpit of Illinois AKA Chicago, I will say definitely no, but if you were brought up in a country setting where you were around firearms with your parents, I would be fine with an 18-year-old possessing firearms.
The real question is how can you make it fair??
 
i really have not seen any "18 year old LEO's" here anywhere in my state to be honest..if some of you have 18 year old LEO's, are they to be trusted in thier thought process, or are they just driving around town, with the lights and siren blasting, making people pull over and out of thier way....just for kicks..???

i find it one sided at least here in my wonderfully controlling blue state, that current, and former (retired) LEOs, and current and former (also retired) military can have what i cannot have...more than 10 round magazines.

sorry...but you are retired....??? then YOU ARE JUST LIKE ME, meaning the bans on ME are FOR YOU AS WELL..

the issue of an 18 year old buying a gun is not without controversy , and always has been.

does it violate the 2nd Amendment...??

again, maybe, maybe not.

as i recall, if a state law supersedes federal law, state wins.

for instance all of this:

Key Details on 18-Year-Old Gun Purchases:
  • Federal Law: Licensed dealers (FFLs) cannot sell handguns to anyone under 21, but they can sell rifles and shotguns to those 18 and older.
  • Recent Court Rulings: In 2025, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that barring 18-to-20-year-olds from buying handguns violates the Second Amendment, arguing they are part of "the people" and historically served in militias.
  • State Law: Some states have implemented laws that are more restrictive than federal law, raising the minimum age to 21 for all firearm purchases, including rifles.
  • Legal Debate: The central debate rests on whether regulating access for 18-20 year olds based on public safety is permissible or if it infringes on their constitutional rights.
  • ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
so if a state, red, blue, purple, green, yellowed rainbow, makes it a law about age limits, that supersedes, trumps, whatever we want to call it.......federal laws.

my opinion about gun purchases age limits...??

26 years of age.....one has to be 26 to rent out a vehicle, i know this cuz i wrenched at a car rental company, one of the big ones too........but car rentals is NOT the same as guns...we all know this...but that 3,000 lbs (and up) vehicle CAN KILL just as easily.......in the wrong hands.....right..????

there is that argument, debate, whatever, that well if "one can be 16/18, and join the army and go fight, then he should be able to go out and buy a gun...

you cannot compare that army duty whether drafted or voluntary to civilian life, one is duty to country, the other is not.

so, let it stand "as-is" to all the 50 U.S. states and thier laws about gun purchases

otherwise, get up off your collective assssssses, and demand more from your "state" elected officials to make changes, in YOUR state, as well as to your congressmen to make changes on the federal levels

and also, yes, i too believe the OP of this thread is/was trolling.

this age BS nonsense always seems to get started on ANY website, from new members...not the older "established one's".
 
Old_Me said:
i really have not seen any "18 year old LEO's" here anywhere in my state to be honest..if some of you have 18 year old LEO's, are they to be trusted in thier thought process, or are they just driving around town, with the lights and siren blasting, making people pull over and out of thier way....just for kicks..???

i find it one sided at least here in my wonderfully controlling blue state, that current, and former (retired) LEOs, and current and former (also retired) military can have what i cannot have...more than 10 round magazines.

sorry...but you are retired....??? then YOU ARE JUST LIKE ME, meaning the bans on ME are FOR YOU AS WELL..

the issue of an 18 year old buying a gun is not without controversy , and always has been.

does it violate the 2nd Amendment...??

again, maybe, maybe not.

as i recall, if a state law supersedes federal law, state wins.

for instance all of this:

Key Details on 18-Year-Old Gun Purchases:
  • Federal Law: Licensed dealers (FFLs) cannot sell handguns to anyone under 21, but they can sell rifles and shotguns to those 18 and older.
  • Recent Court Rulings: In 2025, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that barring 18-to-20-year-olds from buying handguns violates the Second Amendment, arguing they are part of "the people" and historically served in militias.
  • State Law: Some states have implemented laws that are more restrictive than federal law, raising the minimum age to 21 for all firearm purchases, including rifles.
  • Legal Debate: The central debate rests on whether regulating access for 18-20 year olds based on public safety is permissible or if it infringes on their constitutional rights.
  • ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
so if a state, red, blue, purple, green, yellowed rainbow, makes it a law about age limits, that supersedes, trumps, whatever we want to call it.......federal laws.

my opinion about gun purchases age limits...??

26 years of age.....one has to be 26 to rent out a vehicle, i know this cuz i wrenched at a car rental company, one of the big ones too........but car rentals is NOT the same as guns...we all know this...but that 3,000 lbs (and up) vehicle CAN KILL just as easily.......in the wrong hands.....right..????

there is that argument, debate, whatever, that well if "one can be 16/18, and join the army and go fight, then he should be able to go out and buy a gun...

you cannot compare that army duty whether drafted or voluntary to civilian life, one is duty to country, the other is not.

so, let it stand "as-is" to all the 50 U.S. states and thier laws about gun purchases

otherwise, get up off your collective assssssses, and demand more from your "state" elected officials to make changes, in YOUR state, as well as to your congressmen to make changes on the federal levels

and also, yes, i too believe the OP of this thread is/was trolling.

this age BS nonsense always seems to get started on ANY website, from new members...not the older "established one's".
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I can’t believe some actually replied to this thread, his last one was about assault weapons, and his others were questionable……he is as I posted trolling, or big brother feeling out this forum and its members….
 
Annihilator said:
I can’t believe some actually replied to this thread, his last one was about assault weapons, and his others were questionable……he is as I posted trolling, or big brother feeling out this forum and its members….
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usually "we" can spot a troll from the farthest distance.

and i absolutely HATE the argument about 16/18 year olds going into the army, yet they ain't allowed to drink or buy guns.

i also absolutely HATE that current/former/retired LEO and military can have what we cannot have.....like semi-automatic shotguns, large capacity magazines, and many other things...

once "retired" from LEO or military, one is a CIVILIAN

now, by the way, i am speaking only of MY STATE, that imposes those bans by BLUE STATE LAWS

i speak of no other state, about such bans on us, the LAW abiding 2A crowd.
 
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