Conservative New Orleans court ruling for people between 18 and 21 comes amid major shifts in firearm legal landscape

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    8 days ago

    If you can’t be trusted with a gun you shouldn’t be in the military. No more of this “you’re an adult only when it’s convenient for us” crap.

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      I mean… in the military you get training and supervision. Us civies can just walk out the shop with a brand new rifle: no training, few questions asked.

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          Requiring training and a license to own a gun? That would go to court as being unconstitutional.

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              That’s kinda the point of The BSA/GSA. Unfortunately these days scouting seems to be mostly arts and crafts, rather than outdoorsman training.

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            That’s been the case in Connecticut since Sandy Hook, and so far nobody has successfully challenged it

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      I shot myself in the arm at age 3 with a pellet gun.

      I learned to use a rifle at age 10, with full out safety training.

      I learned to fix guns in machine shop at age 17.

      As much as I’ve learned about weapons in my life, I still don’t trust 93% of people with access to them.

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      Yea, my opinions of you need to be X or Y age to do A or B boils down to: “IDC, just pick one got dang number and stick to it”

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      I mean, there’s a difference between trusted with a gun while supervised and trusted to have a gun at your disposal 24/7 without supervision.