Maybe the gangs will not sale guns to terrorists?
Gun control
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In New Jersey a 10 year old can hunt with adults with a shotgun, rifle is not permitted for hunting in NJ as well.Federal law prohibits hand gun ownership by anyone under the age of 18.
The issue for long guns (rifle's and shot guns typically used for hunting) is cloudier, and varies from state to state.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...own-a-rife-or-shotgun/?utm_term=.365b377b6a4e
The ones with no minimum make my state (NY look almost sane with having it at 16). Illinois is the only one that has it at 21. You see mostly the usual suspects with non minimum age, but then you notice California, Massachusetts, Connecticut on the list. Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire are a little surprising except for the hunting aspect. Idaho is surprise the other way, as is Florida and Oklahoma, they have gone with 18.
So yes in most states a 13 year old could own a rifle. But there are also federal and state laws limiting who can buy a long gun. So a 13 year might be able to own one, but not buy one themselves (they would have to say have it given to them by a relative). yes it is crazy.
Yeah it's always always fun going through that spiel with teenagers at school
Federal law prohibits hand gun ownership by anyone under the age of 18.
The issue for long guns (rifle's and shot guns typically used for hunting) is cloudier, and varies from state to state.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...own-a-rife-or-shotgun/?utm_term=.365b377b6a4e
The ones with no minimum make my state (NY look almost sane with having it at 16). Illinois is the only one that has it at 21. You see mostly the usual suspects with non minimum age, but then you notice California, Massachusetts, Connecticut on the list. Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire are a little surprising except for the hunting aspect. Idaho is surprise the other way, as is Florida and Oklahoma, they have gone with 18.
So yes in most states a 13 year old could own a rifle. But there are also federal and state laws limiting who can buy a long gun. So a 13 year might be able to own one, but not buy one themselves (they would have to say have it given to them by a relative). yes it is crazy.
ahh i forgot about the rifle thing. In my country Kids dont own a gun. Its the guardians/ parents that own the shot gun and they are under supervision when at the skeet range or during hunting season. They arent allowed to actually own the fire arm and use it outside of those purposes.
I asked because saying there are only 50 million gun owners out of 350 million isnt exactly telling a full story when kids arent allowed to own a hand gun anyway. But i didnt know they could actually own a rifle.
It is probably closer to the truth then assuming that all or most Americans own guns. I think at any given time people under 18 make up 20-24% of the population. I guess you would really need to pull apart the stats. Separate the categories, ie hand gun ownership vs long gun ownership. Then look at the ages within each category of who owns what. You still probably end up with something like 25 to 35% of the population being gun owners. A huge number of people when you consider the population of the US.
Warzone.
Can own a gun but cannot drink, drive or vote.Federal law prohibits hand gun ownership by anyone under the age of 18.
The issue for long guns (rifle's and shot guns typically used for hunting) is cloudier, and varies from state to state.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...own-a-rife-or-shotgun/?utm_term=.365b377b6a4e
The ones with no minimum make my state (NY look almost sane with having it at 16). Illinois is the only one that has it at 21. You see mostly the usual suspects with non minimum age, but then you notice California, Massachusetts, Connecticut on the list. Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire are a little surprising except for the hunting aspect. Idaho is surprise the other way, as is Florida and Oklahoma, they have gone with 18.
So yes in most states a 13 year old could own a rifle. But there are also federal and state laws limiting who can buy a long gun. So a 13 year might be able to own one, but not buy one themselves (they would have to say have it given to them by a relative). yes it is crazy.
Update on the Orlando shootings. Disgruntled former employee, who was fired in April. 5 people murdered. Gunmen also dead (suicide. A shame they never do that first).
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/05/us/orlando-fatalities/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/05/us/orlando-fatalities/index.html
What as waste of human life. Sad.
Maybe Trump should tweet something about Gun Control wrt Orlando and not London.
What gets me about that tweet is that it inadvertently makes the case for gun control because it begs the question, "how bad would it have been with a gun?"
Stuff like this is genuinely mind-blowing. How does a supposedly civilised country end up in a situation where people can legally turn up to a protest tooled up like this prick?
'Merica is a fecked up country when it comes to gun and gun laws. All this is happening due to Republicans not passing any bills/legislation since they are being funded by the scum that is the NRA. They regularly donate to campaigns and have the stupid Republicans in their pockets.
I don't understand why people do this in public. There are millions of ordinary gun owners who have rifles for hunting or sport shooting and pistols for self defense, who don't feel a need to do this sort of thing.
Exactly. Whatever about America's tradition there's no sane justification for carrying a gun like that to a protest. Absolutely mental that's he's not breaking any laws. Surreal.
Also. What an absolute cnut. Bet he has a tiny pecker.
Actually, that guy is breaking the law.
He has a magazine in the rifle and the rifle is not slung over behind his shoulder. Those are no-no's.
... in Texas?
You can carry a shotgun or rifle openly, but not "in a manner calculated to alarm".
The law is written as such to allow for hunters to carry their weapons openly while hunting, but what the man in the picture is doing, in my mind at least, meets the criteria of calculated to alarm.
He could be a United Airlines worker on his way to the office. 
In many places in Texas they still might have drive-thru windows at some bars (and yes these were at least at one time legal). I am not talking about being able to drive up and get a 6 pack to take home, I am talking about being able to drive up and get an alcoholic beverage to drink while you drove to wherever you were going. I think they still may have drive thru daiquiri bars in Louisiana.
Though I do believe it is illegal for anyone to be drinking booze while driving, even when the drive-thru places were legal, it still is pretty damn crazy.
Drinking and driving is legal in Mississippi though as long as you're under .08
Yes. Count me in on that. I can't stand the jagoffs like that guy in the picture.
I grew up in Texas, lived there to my 20th, moved back at age 25 before moving again at age 27, and have visited numerous times since. I've never once heard of a bar with drive-through window. They did (and still do) have drive-through windows at liquor stores and drive-through liquor stores (where you literally can/could drive a vehicle through the store).
No doubt. There's a lot of stuff attributed to that that I think is crap, but the armed to the teeth big gun carrying man, I tend to believe that they really are overcompensating for other areas they think they're lacking
Looks like an ammosexual.
Ten-month-old Houston boy shot dead in father's arms
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/15/houston-baby-shot-dead-texas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/15/houston-baby-shot-dead-texas
They have those in Australia as well. I went to/through one in Hervey Bay.
People suckLooks like one of these?
Yes pretty much.
I remember driving in north or south Carolina and seeing drive-thru windows at liquor stores - that was long time ago - damn it I'm getting old.
SC had them. There's an old liquor store in my hometown that's still got the window... just doesn't operate it anymore
Good ol Texas. I remember the first time I had to buy a case of shells. I walked in and out of Walmart in less than 2 mins. No ID. Nothing.
Unsurprising, but absolutely sickening, shocking and most definitely unacceptable. How can guns be the third highest killer of children in a so called civilised country? How anyone can justify this is completely beyond me, but as people have said ad nauseam, If things didn't change after Sandy Hook then they never would. With stats like this and constant pictures of morons armed to the teeth in supermarkets, the USA resembles a slightly upmarket Afghanistan more than it does the so called greatest country on Earth. Now they have a tin pot Dictator to help in the transition.
Note #1 is "illnesses" and #2 is " unintentional injuries like drownings or car crashes". I'm surprised illness is one category and that drownings and car crashes are combined. Either way, 2000 kids dying a year is a national disgrace.
They're white. No rocket science there.
Really ? What does race have to do with it ?
I'm a white gun owner and I look at those people as idiots.