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

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    So they lowered the earliest buying age from 21 to 18? You can join the military at 18 (not that I think that’s a particularly sane thing either), so this makes a vague amount of sense.

    Why are there comments here acting like they removed the age minimum entirely?

    • Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip
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      1 hour ago

      I’ve always thought it stupid that you could join the military and go kill people at 18, but had to be 21 to drink or smoke. The obvious solution would be to make gun ownership and military service require you be 21 though.

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        10 minutes ago

        It’s 18 for military so they can get people right out of high school before they’ve had a chance to live life.