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ny passed an incredibly weak gun law. literally pathetically weak. it’s not nothing, but like, jesus christ.

#it raises the minimum age for buying an assault rifle to be 21 #everything else stays the same #believe me i understand what it's for #its to specifcially address teenage shooters #but still. christ. come on.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed Thursday adding a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which he said will address the country's gun violence crisis.

The amendment would raise the minimum age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21, mandate universal background checks, institute a reasonable waiting period for all gun purchases and bar civilians from purchasing assault weapons, according to a statement from the Governor's office.

"This will guarantee states as well the ability to enact common sense gun safety laws, while leaving the Second Amendment intact, and respecting America's gun owning tradition," Newsom said in a video statement. "The 28th Amendment locks in the common sense constitutional protections that Democrats, Republicans, Independents and gun owners overwhelmingly support and ensures NRA-owned politicians can never strip those protections away."

6 in 10 Americans, including 4 in 10 gun owners, said controlling gun violence is more important than protecting gun rights – the highest percentage in a decade – according to a national poll released last month.

Newsom told Politico and NBC the move was inspired in part by the rollback of gun safety measures by the courts.

The move comes amid speculation that Newsom may run for President, which grew after he won a second term as Governor, which ends in 2026, and dropped $10 million on a new political action committee. Newsom has denied planning to run in 2024 or 2028, saying he supports President Joe Biden and wants Vice President Kamala Harris, a fellow Californian, to be President.

PROPOSAL SPARKS CRITICISM FROM GUN GROUPS

The move has drawn opposition from gun-ownership groups. A spokesperson for The National Rifle Association said in a statement to USA TODAY that the majority of Americans reject Newsom's "California-style gun control.”

“Newsom’s latest publicly stunt once again shows that his unhinged contempt for the right to self-defense has no bounds," the statement said. "California is a beacon for violence because of Newsom’s embrace of policies that champion the criminal and penalize the law-abiding."

Erich Pratt, senior vice president of Gun Owners of America said "Newsom's proposals will fail miserably to control crime."

"It's a foreign concept to wealthy anti-gun political elites like Mr. Newsom that the common people have a right to possess arms for self-defense and repelling government tyranny, so it's no surprise to us that he hopes to butcher that right with a new Constitutional amendment," he said in a statement to USA TODAY.

ADDING CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 'WON'T BE EASY'

Adding a constitutional amendment requires either a two-thirds majority vote by both houses of Congress or a constitutional convention convened by two-thirds of State legislatures, according to Thomas Donnelly, chief content officer at the National Constitution Center. None of the 27 amendments to the Constitution have been proposed by a convention and the last time the Constitution was amended was in 1992, he said.

Three-fourths of the states must ratify the proposed amendment in order for it to become part of the Constitution, Donnelly said. Donnelly declined to speculate on the likelihood of Newsom's success. But he said the process is "meant to be difficult."

"The Founders really wanted to limit new amendments to those that can actually secure the broad support of the American people, so for them, they would have said 'an idea that would transcend faction,'" he said. "Today, we would say it's often something that's going to transcend partisan politics."

Given the impact of the Supreme Court's landmark ruling on gun control last year, "something like a Constitutional amendment may seem absolutely necessary," according to Michael Waldman, president and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law.

Waldman, author of "The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided the Country," called Newsom's approach, which leaves the Second Amendment intact but allows for "common sense gun laws" that may be palatable to some gun rights supporters, creative and interesting. He said Newsom's amendment "is not likely to happen, but it's important to think about it."

"Constitutional amendments seem completely impossible to do until suddenly they seem doable, and that's how it's worked all throughout our history," Waldman said. "If the Court's doctrine is so misguided and the carnage on the streets is so undeniable, you might get a surprising outcome."

Newsom acknowledged how challenging the process would be, saying "this fight won't be easy, and it certainly won't be fast."

California State Sen. Aisha Wahab and Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer will introduce a joint resolution to make California the first state to call for a convention, also called an Article V Convention or amendatory convention, according to the Governor's statement.

Newsom will then work with "grassroots supporters, elected and civic leaders, and broad and diverse coalitions across the nation" to get similar resolutions passed in the 33 other states required to convene the convention, the statement said.

"California will be the first but that's just the beginning," Newsom said in a statement.

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The fact that the gunman responsible for this week’s massacre in Uvalde, Texas, was able to buy two AR-15s days after his 18th birthday highlights how much easier it is for Americans to purchase rifles than handguns.

Under federal law, Americans buying handguns from licensed dealers must be at least 21, which would have precluded Salvador Ramos from buying that type of weapon. That trumps Texas law, which only requires buyers of any type of firearm to be 18 or older.

Following Tuesday’s massacre at Robb Elementary School, which killed 19 children and two adults, a growing number of lawmakers in Texas and beyond are calling for the minimum age to purchase assault rifles to be raised to 21 from 18. Doing so would require undoing nearly two centuries of more permissive regulations on so-called long guns.

“It’s something that could happen at either the state or federal level, but I don’t see movement on either front,” said Sandra Guerra Thompson, a criminal law professor at the University of Houston Law Center.

Only six states — Florida, Washington, Vermont, California, Illinois and Hawaii — have increased the minimum purchase age for long guns to 21, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The majority did so following the 2018 massacre in Parkland, Florida, where a then-19-year-old assailant killed 17 people at a high school.

Several states have since faced legal challenges.

The National Rifle Association sought to repeal the Florida law.

“The ban infringes the right of all 18-to-20-year-olds to purchase firearms for the exercise of their Second Amendment rights, even for self-defense in the home,” the NRA argued in a court filing, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “The ban does not just limit the right, it obliterates it.”

Government attorneys, however, argued that because “18-to-20-year-olds are uniquely likely to engage in impulsive, emotional, and risky behaviors that offer immediate or short-term rewards, drawing the line for legal purchase of firearms at 21 is a reasonable method of addressing the Legislature’s public safety concerns.”

A federal judge upheld the law last year; the NRA is appealing.

A U.S. Court of Appeals recently ruled that California’s version of the law was unconstitutional, though it did uphold a provision that requires adults under 21 to obtain a hunting license before buying a rifle or shotgun.

After the shooting in Uvalde this week, lawmakers in New York and Utah also called on their states to raise the age limit for long gun purchases to 21. U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced federal legislation earlier this month — less than a week before the Uvalde shooting — that would raise the minimum age to purchase assault weapons to 21 from 18; the California Democrat said in a statement that it was in response to a shooting that killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket. That gunman also was 18 years old.

“It makes no sense that it’s illegal for someone under 21 to buy a handgun or even a beer, yet can legally buy an assault weapon,” she said.

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nonenosome2 · 1 year

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Lol

33 year old kills people.

Legislature wants to raise minimum age to buy "assault style" rifles to 21.

At this point, let's just raise the age of adulthood to 21.

You can sign up for the military, or for men you have to sign up for the draft, at age 18, but smoking, drinking, buying guns are all 21.

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By Jessica Priest and Perla Trevizo

ProPublica, Co-published with The Texas Tribune

Feb. 16, 2023, updated May 8, 2023

It has become a mournful pattern. Following mass shootings, lawmakers in many states have taken stock of what happened and voted to approve gun control legislation to try to prevent additional bloodshed.

In Colorado, the Legislature passed universal background checks in 2013 after a shooter at an Aurora movie theater killed 12 people. After 58 people were shot dead during a 2017 concert in Las Vegas, the Nevada Legislature passed a red flag law that allows a judge to order that weapons be taken from people who are deemed a threat. And in Florida in 2018, then-Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill that raised the minimum age to buy a firearm to 21 after a teenager with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire at a Parkland high school, killing 17 people.

But not in Texas.

In the past six decades, the state has experienced at least 20 mass shootings that have killed more than 200 people and wounded at least 240 others. Yet state leaders have repeatedly batted away measures that would limit access to guns, opting instead to ease restrictions on publicly carrying them while making it harder for local governments to regulate them.

As the state Legislature convenes for the first time since the Uvalde school shooting last May, lawmakers have once again filed a slate of gun control bills. If history is an indicator, and top legislative leaders predict it will be, they are unlikely to pass.

An analysis by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune of hundreds of bills filed in the Texas Legislature over nearly the past six decades found that at least two dozen measures would have prevented people from legally obtaining the weapons, including assault rifles and large-capacity magazines, used in seven of the state’s mass shootings.

At least five bills would have required that people seeking to obtain a gun undergo a background check. Such a check would have kept the man involved in a 2019 shooting spree in Midland and Odessa from legally purchasing the weapon because he had been deemed to have a mental illness.

Seven bills would have banned the sale or possession of the semi-automatic rifle that a shooter used to kill dozens of people at an El Paso Walmart in 2019.

And at least two bills would have raised the legal age to own or purchase an assault weapon from 18 to 21 years old, which would have made it illegal for the Uvalde shooter to buy the semi-automatic assault rifles.

A state House committee that investigated the Uvalde massacre found that the shooter had tried to get at least two people to buy a gun for him before he turned 18 but was unsuccessful. Immediately after his birthday, he purchased two AR-15-style rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition, which he used to kill 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School.

“If that law had been 21, I guarantee you he would have continued to be frustrated and not be able to obtain that weapon,” said state Rep. Joe Moody, a Democrat from El Paso who served as vice chair of the House committee.

Gun violence in Texas was again in the news after one person was killed and three people were wounded Wednesday in a shooting at an El Paso mall. The shopping center abuts the Walmart where the 2019 massacre took place; the latest incident came just a week after the shooter in the earlier case pleaded guilty to hate crimes and weapons charges. Though the investigation into this week’s shooting is underway, U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, a Democrat who represents El Paso, responded to a tweet of support sent by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott by calling on him to enact gun violence prevention legislation during the current legislative session.

A collection of reforms are necessary to help curb the number of mass shootings — and gun violence in general — across the nation, said Ari Freilich, state policy director for the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

“There is an enormous need for states to act, especially in states like Texas, where today someone with a really significant history of violence can purchase unlimited quantities of weapons of war without any kind of background check, where there’s no red flag law in place to give people close to them the tools to go into a court and help be a part of preventing violence, where young people can go out and purchase their own firearms years before they can buy their first beer,” Freilich said.

Abbott has repeatedly opposed legislation regulating guns. “There are thousands of laws on the books across the country that limit the owning or using of firearms, laws that have not stopped madmen from carrying out evil acts on innocent people,” Abbott said in a prerecorded speech to the National Rifle Association three days after the Uvalde shooting.

Since then, the governor has argued against legislation that would raise the age to purchase assault-style weapons in Texas, saying that a federal district court judge ruled last August that the Second Amendment prevents the state from barring 18- to 20-year-olds from carrying handguns. Texas is not appealing the ruling.

Eric Ruben, a law professor at Southern Methodist University, said that the widely held consensus in the appellate courts has been that restrictions on AR-15-style weapons are constitutional, as are age restrictions. Ruben said that a U.S. Supreme Court decision last June, which gave Americans a broad right to arm themselves in public, complicated the long held consensus. The ruling rejected a standard used by most lower courts that weighed whether the law advanced public safety and instead stated that governments should pass laws that are “consistent with this nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”

“The appellate courts have yet to weigh in more broadly on the constitutionality of raising the age to purchase military-style semi-automatic weapons, as Florida did after Parkland, after that June decision,” he said.

Neither the governor nor Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick responded to requests for comment or detailed questions. A spokesperson for House Speaker Dade Phelan pointed reporters to previous statements in which he said he would vote against raising the minimum age to buy a firearm and that he didn’t think the House had the votes to pass such a bill.

Rhonda Hart, whose 14-year-old daughter was killed in a 2018 shooting at Santa Fe High School, said she’s been frustrated by the repeated unwillingness of Texas lawmakers to consider meaningful gun legislation.

“We’ve tried everything with them, but they just don’t want to do it,” Hart said. “I’ve said it, and I hope to God that it never becomes true, but they’re not going to care about fixing gun violence until a member of the family or they themselves get impacted.”

Below are details of selected Texas mass shootings in which at least three people were killed, starting with the 1966 massacre of 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin. The news organizations reviewed more than 700 bills introduced in the state Legislature since 1965, along with legislative reports, news clips, press releases and databases compiled by nonprofits that track mass shootings, including The Violence Project and Mother Jones.

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The Gun Violence In Amerca

By Fatah Abdi, Ohio State University class of 2023

January 2, 2023

The 2nd Amendment allows American citizens the right to bear arms. This has been a controversial topic due to the effects of gun violence in the past and recent years. A study shows states with weaker gun laws have higher homicide rates. For example, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Wyoming all have weak gun laws due to the fact that the firearm mortality rate is high. It's known that states with stronger gun laws have a reduction in violent crime. Less access to guns creates a safer environment and will reduce the crime rate. This has caused questions in the community about whether the states should take action due to the history of mass shootings in America. This has caused citizens to panic and believe states would take away their 2nd Amendment rights; however, that was never the cause.

Creating safer gun laws, as some states are discussing, does not imply that guns will be taken away. Those states are just looking for ways to make citizens safer and have gun control. More than 110 Americans are killed with guns, and more than 200 are shot and wounded. Studies show that even those who aren't killed by a gun will have mental effects and fear the next shooting or anything that sounds like a gunshot. Not only does this increase the homicide rates in America, but it also increases the suicide rates by three times. Compared to other countries, the United States' homicide gun rate is 26 times higher. which makes this a very alarming rate. We have the resources to make gun laws safer; however, citizens are wondering what the United States is waiting on. Especially with the recent Uvalde school shooting, 21 lives were lost that day due to the lack of gun control in Texas. Texas has had eight mass shootings in the past 13 years, and there have not been any changes to the law regarding guns. Some citizens are asking for the state of Texas to take gun control more seriously, to prevent future mass shootings, and to ensure the safety of children and adults. The 18-year-old who carried out the mass shooting purchased an AR-15 rifle days before the shooting. In interviews and studies, researchers wonder why the 18-year-old was allowed to purchase such a dangerous gun. Texas families who have been affected by the school shooting are calling for the police chief to be fired due to his response to the school shooting and for officers not entering the classroom with guns. They are also calling for more gun control; however, the Governor hasn't made any updates regarding reforming gun laws in Texas. Texas governor Greg Abbott stated "that it would be unconstitutional to increase the minimum age to buy assault-style rifles from 18 to 21 years old." The governor stated this after the killing of innocent children and teachers. The families of the children and teachers have been asking for an increase in age or some form of gun control to ease their minds, as well as the minds of other people. "You have to be 21 to buy a case of beer," said Caitlyne Gonzales, a fourth grader at Robb Elementary, "but an 18-year-old bought a gun to kill kids." "That does not make sense." Even with the eight mass shootings Texas has had, there has not been a single gun control law enforced to make the state safer.

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Dey, Sneha. “Abbott Says Raising the Age to Buy an Assault-Style Rifle Is ‘Unconstitutional’ Based on Recent Court Rulings.” The Texas Tribune, The Texas Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022, https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/31/greg-abbott-assault-rifle-raise-age/#:~:text=Greg%20Abbott%20said%20Wednesday%20that,their%20children's%20school%20in%20May.

“Gun Violence in America.” Everytown Research & Policy, 27 Oct. 2022, https://everytownresearch.org/report/gun-violence-in-america/.

Jacobo, Julia, and Nadine El-Bawab. ABC News, ABC News Network, 2022, https://abcnews.go.com/US/timeline-shooting-texas-elementary-school-unfolded/story?id=84966910.

Simkins, Chris. “US Gun Violence Soars in 2022.” VOA, Voice of America (VOA News), 31 Dec. 2022, https://www.voanews.com/a/us-gun-violence-soars-in-2022/6876785.html.

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Buying Rifles as well as Shotguns

Acquiring rifles and shotguns is presently restricted to adults that are at least 18 years old. However, legislations differ from one state to another. New York Governor Kathy Hochul just recently signed right into law an age restriction for assault rifles and also shotguns of 21 years of ages. This law increases the state's Emergency Danger Security Orders, which make it less complicated for cops to remove guns from people who are fierce. Click here to get more info about this article.

A number of states are thinking about raising the minimum age to purchase rifles as well as shotguns. A bipartisan team of senators has been working with a proposal to boost the minimum age to 21. President Donald Trump has actually additionally asked for increasing the age to buy semi-automatic rifles to 21. Nevertheless, opponents to the step have stated that the federal government must impose a restriction on the sale of these types of weapons. In November, Washington voters passed a package of gun control steps that boosts the minimum age to buy rifles as well as shotguns to 21.

The plan also includes a ban on open lug of crammed guns in public. It additionally would certainly require moms and dads to secure guns in the house and also would certainly ban gun purchases by 3rd parties. Furthermore, it would boost financing for psychological health solutions and also urge states to establish warning legislations. After the mass capturing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Democrats began working to restrict accessibility to guns. Consequently, a number of states have actually passed legislations that restrict accessibility to guns by youths. As an example, Oregon has elevated the legal age to acquire a rifle to 21, while Rhode Island has enhanced the minimum age to purchase a pistol to 21. The legislations are created to prevent individuals that have actually been convicted of domestic physical violence or mental disorder from having weapons.

The National Rifle Organization has actually submitted a legal action versus Florida's brand-new gun regulations. The suit claims that the state's minimum age to get a rifle violates the 2nd Amendment. Nevertheless, a panel of 3 government judges has actually overturned the state's law, which calls for that grownups go to the very least 18 to acquire rifles and shotguns. A government law that bans individuals under the age of 21 from buying hand guns from qualified dealerships also applies to acquiring rifles and also shotguns. However, it likewise forbids those under the age of 18 from purchasing hand guns from private sellers. On top of that, the FBI's National Instant Crook Background Check System (NICS) is made use of for lengthy guns in Washington. Regional police can access a lot more detailed records. Visit this website: https://www.actionarmory.com/catalog/rifles to discover more about this service.

In January, 4.1 million guns were bought legitimately. This was a 60% increase over the year prior. According to Gallup, 44 percent of Americans stayed in a home that had a gun. Although many people acquisition guns for searching and also sports, individual defense continues to be the primary reason for acquiring a gun. Buying a rifle is a significant decision that requires forethought, as well as psychological maturation is an important part of gun ownership. Several weapon procedures have actually been established since Parkland, consisting of a three-day waiting duration for all weapon sales. Florida's regulation also calls for individuals who are hospitalized for mental disorder greater than when in a year to acquire a mental health and wellness certificate before being permitted to acquire a gun.

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#CorpMedia #Idiocracy #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #DemExit #FeelTheBern Abbott claims raising the age to buy an assault-style rifle is ‘unconstitutional’ https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/abbott-claims-raising-the-age-to-buy-an-assault-style-rifle-is-unconstitutional/ Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday it would be unconstitutional to increase the minimum age to buy assault-style rifles from 18 to 21 years old — a key proposal Uvalde parents have called for after an 18-year-old gunned down their children’s school in May...

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Should Underage People Be Allowed to Purchase Rifles?

While there is a lot of argument over whether underage people ought to be permitted to buy rifles, the National Rifle Organization has actually said that these legislations are not fair. Recent mass capturings in Uvalde, Texas, as well as Buffalo, New York, have triggered the Associated Press and also New York Times to call the shooters "males" and "gunmen," specifically. Although these terms are a lot more accurate, viewers note that individuals under age 21 are not yet totally established adults. Because of this, states have enacted laws restricting the age at which youngsters can acquire pistols as well as rifles from certified suppliers. You can check this store for more about the best rifles.

Some states have gone as far as banning underage people from buying rifles, but various other states have actually not done the same. Consequently, a current lawsuit versus California's law has resulted in the repeal of that legislation. It is essential to remember that the U.S. High court has actually promoted the requirement that a grown-up over 21 have a searching certificate. This is just one of the primary reasons why the suits against the California law have been successful. The legislation would certainly raise the age limit to get assault rifles from 18 to 21 years old, prohibit the sale of high capability magazines, as well as call for moms and dads to lock their guns when not being used. It would certainly additionally restrict third-party acquisitions of rifles.

Rep. Steve Cohen stated that kids ought to not be allowed to purchase AR-15s prior to they reach the age of 21, since this gun is the type used in recent mass shootings. A new law is unlikely to pass in the near future, so more weapon control regulation is needed. Although that weapon possession regulations vary by state, the federal government's guidelines for selling guns stay the same. When you buy rifles online in usa from a qualified weapon dealership is normally a great idea. Weapon stores, gun programs, as well as strangers on Craigslist all need customers to pass a criminal history background check prior to they can lawfully have the tool. A license for protection is an extra need, as well as a history check. Regretfully, several Russian gun customers do not complete this action. The anti-gun movement has made efforts to link the recent insurrections on Capitol Hillside to the spike in weapon sales.

Nonetheless, the proof is mixed. Despite exactly how one picks to clarify these spikes in gun sales, the anti-gun lobbyists are appropriate to be worried. The reality of the matter is that it is tough to establish whether these spikes in gun sales were triggered by an absence of weapons or by an increase sought after. Ultimately, the concern of age should not come down to that is enabled to buy a lengthy weapon. While many states need a minimum age of 21 years of ages to acquire a rifle, a handful of states have raised the age limitation. Some states have even passed regulations that prevent all acquisitions of long weapons under the age of 21. Nevertheless, the federal government has yet to pass any type of regulation that raises the age need for attack rifles. If you want to know more about this topic, then click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifle.

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The pediatrician who treated juvenile gunshot victims after the elementary school mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, castigated Congress for allowing teenagers to buy guns.

During testimony on Wednesday as lawmakers consider new legislation on gun violence, Dr. Roy Guerrero described treating children who’d been shot by an 18-year-old gunman and seeing the decapitated bodies of children who had been torn apart by bullets from an assault rifle.

Guerrero said he became a pediatrician partly because children are good patients who listen to medical advice, whereas adults are stubborn to change even if it will make them better.

“Why else would there have been such little progress made in Congress to stop gun violence? Innocent children all over the country today are dead because laws and policy allows people to buy weapons before they’re legally even old enough to buy a pack of beer,” Guerrero said.

“They are dead because restrictions have been allowed to lapse,” Guerrero said, referring to the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004. “They’re dead because there are no rules about where guns are kept. Because no one is paying attention to who is buying them.”

The Uvalde gunman murdered 19 elementary school students and two teachers using an assault rifle he legally purchased days after his 18th birthday. Federal law allows 18-year-olds to purchase shotguns and rifles from licensed gun dealers while restricting handgun sales to people 21 and older.

House Democrats plan to vote on a package of gun legislation later Wednesday that would include a bill raising the minimum age for most shotguns and rifles, but the bills won’t clear the Senate.

A bipartisan group of Senators, however, is negotiating on a more modest package of reforms that could include improvements to the background check system for licensed gun sales, funding for mental health and incentives for states to pass “red flag” laws to confiscate guns from people who are deemed dangerous.

Senate Democrats have pushed for raising the age for assault rifles to 21, but Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told HuffPost on Tuesday that Republicans would probably tank the whole package if it raised the age.

Guerrero said the AR-style rifle used in Uvalde left the killer’s victims unrecognizable.

“Two children, whose bodies had been so pulverized by the bullets fired at them, over and over again, whose flesh had been so ripped apart, that the only clue as to their identities were the blood spattered cartoon clothes still clinging to them,” Guerrero said.

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U.S. House votes to raise age to buy an assault rifle to 21

The House on Wednesday passed a sweeping gun bill that would raise the minimum age to purchase an assault rifle in the U.S. from 18 to 21, even though the legislation doesn’t stand much of a chance in the Senate. The bill, called the Protecting Our Kids Act, would also bar the sale of large-capacity magazines and institute new rules that dictate proper at-home gun storage. The Democratic-held…

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U.S. House votes to raise age to buy an assault rifle to 21

The House on Wednesday passed a sweeping gun bill that would raise the minimum age to purchase an assault rifle in the U.S. from 18 to 21, even though the legislation doesn’t stand much of a chance in the Senate. The bill, called the Protecting Our Kids Act, would also bar the sale of large-capacity magazines and institute new rules that dictate proper at-home gun storage. The Democratic-held…

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U.S. House votes to raise age to buy an assault rifle to 21

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks at a rally with gun violence prevention organizations, gun violence survivors and hundreds of gun safety supporters demanding gun legislation, ouside the United States Capitol in Washington, June 8, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters The U.S. House on Wednesday voted to raise the minimum age to purchase an assault rifle in the U.S. from 18 to 21 as…

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TED NUGENT Says 'AR-15s Are Not Assault Rifles': 'Assault Isn't Hardware; Assault Is An Action'

TED NUGENT Says ‘AR-15s Are Not Assault Rifles’: ‘Assault Isn’t Hardware; Assault Is An Action’

Ted Nugent has spoken out against a growing call by a number of lawmakers in Texas and beyond for the minimum age to purchase assault rifles to be raised to 21 from 18. Under federal law, Americans buying handguns from licensed dealers must be at least 21, which would have precluded the gunman responsible for last week’s massacre in Uvalde, Texas from buying that type of weapon days after his…

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Getting Rifles And Shotguns Is Lawful In The United States

Getting rifles and also shotguns is lawful in the USA if you are at least 18 years old. Nonetheless, lots of states have actually enforced constraints on weapon sales for young adults, consisting of an age restriction of 21. In addition, a government law forbids anybody under 21 from acquiring handguns from accredited dealerships. In feedback to current mass shootings, lawmakers have been working on procedures to tighten up weapon regulations. Particularly, the Parkland school shooting has stimulated a number of propositions to increase the age at which Americans can buy weapons. Lots of lawmakers additionally want to prohibit high-capacity magazines and require that parents secure weapons in their residences.

Nevertheless, while some politicians support raising the age at which Americans can buy rifles as well as shotguns, others oppose the measures. In February, a distressed 19-year-old ex-student killed 17 schoolmates in Parkland, Florida with a military-style rifle. Numerous states have regulations that prohibit 18-to-21-year-olds from getting assault-style rifles. Nevertheless, The golden state just recently passed a law elevating the minimum age to buy long weapons and also rifles to 21. This regulation is anticipated to enter into result within 90 days. In the consequences of the Parkland shooting, Walmart quit marketing weapons to under-21-year-olds. Walmart had formerly enabled adults to purchase weapons at any type of age.

Its plan had transformed after the shooting, nevertheless. Getting a gun from a shop calls for a criminal background check. Its policy is also made to avoid self-destructions and impulsive acts of physical violence. Nonetheless, numerous weapon legal rights supporters say that these laws are unconstitutional. A new claim has actually been filed by the National Rifle Organization versus the state of Florida for passing a legislation limiting under-21-year-olds from getting rifles and shotguns. The suit affirms violation of the Second and 14th amendments of the Constitution. The complainants consist of a 19-year-old entertainment shooter, guns dealerships in Spokane and also Vancouver, as well as the Secondly Modification Structure.

Furthermore, a group of gun rights supporters filed a government legal action against The golden state's new regulation. The suit claims that the state's brand-new legislation violates the Second Change and the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. The legal action likewise claims that the state's brand-new legislation is a violation of government weapon rights laws. A bipartisan team of senators has been working on a concession gun costs, which would include small modifications to the criminal history check system. It would certainly also motivate states to pass "warning" laws, which outlaw weapon sales to individuals determined to be a threat to culture. Visit this website for more details on shortguns.

Additionally, the regulations would certainly boost financing for psychological health and wellness solutions. Nevertheless, Republicans are not likely to support the procedure. They claim that the federal ban would be extra reliable. On top of that, your home of Representatives has passed a bundle of gun control actions. The bundle consists of a restriction on high-capacity magazines as well as a restriction on open lug of packed weapons in public. On top of that, your home plan would need moms and dads to secure their guns in their residences. Additionally, the legislation would certainly need individuals to pass a criminal background check before they acquire a handgun.

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