NOLA: The Louisiana Senate voted 21-9 Tuesday (April 10) to kill a bill that would have prevented people from purchasing assault weapons in the state until they are 21 years old. Louisiana allows anyone to purchase any type of gun once they reach age 18.
Senate Bill 274, sponsored by Sen. Troy Carter, D-New Orleans, would have allowed anyone 18 or older to continue using assault weapons for target practice or for hunting, and they could have still purchased handguns and hunting rifles.
Carter said he brought his proposal forward in response to school shootings, particularly February’s attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz used an assault weapon to kill 17 people.
Federal law prohibits licensed gun dealers from selling handguns to someone under 21, but anyone in Louisiana who is at least 18 years old can purchase any type of weapon through an unlicensed private seller, at a gun show or over the internet. Carter’s bill would have barred people under 21 from purchasing assault weapons from anyone — licensed dealer or otherwise. MORE
SNIP: “Assault” weapons. I’m so sick of that term. From now on, I will label everything “assault,” to further mock the Progs.
I AM THE PROUD OWNER OF AN 1875 BLACK POWDER ASSAULT U.S. CAVALRY COLT SAA AND SEVERAL 1894 ASSAULT 30-30 WINCHESTERS!! I EVEN HAVE AN 1861 CIVIL WAR ASSAULT CAP AND BALL!! MY ENTIRE SAFE IS FULL OF ASSAULT SHIT!!
It’s pure bullshit to differentiate between an 18 y.o. and a 21 y.o.
At 18 years of age you are allowed to join the military, shoot firearms, and in some cases push a button to launch missiles that may potentially eliminate many lives.
You’re allowed to procreate or stop the life of an unborn child.
All the while you are NOT allowed to purchase nor indulge in the consumption of alcohol.
Why the hell do we have two different age groups that supposedly separate ‘child’ from ‘adult’??
… don’t forget that 18-21 year olds kill vastly more people while driving a motor vehicle than with an ‘assault weapon’
there is no rational thought anymore … just ‘feelings’ … & ‘whatever!’
Howzabout ‘assault phone’? I drove about 70 miles on a busy highway today and was much more nearly killed by texters than school shooters.
Phones on the roads piss me off worse than drunks.
I like to “drift” into their space and watch them freak the fuck out 🤫
You mean that’s called break check?
“Assault weapons” are prohibited for sale by US statute.
If it aint full auto, it aint an assault weapon.
Wearing a dress doesn’t make you a girl, no matter how much you scream it does.
Wearing a black paint job doesn’t make it an “assault weapon”, no matter how hard you scream.
It’s already a law, go home and play with My Pony.