• HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Not American so I’m unfamiliar with freedom, but why does the more powerful gun have a more lax age restriction?

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      9 months ago

      Handguns are generally semi-automatic, concealable, and not useful for hunting. They are also the weapons most used to kill people.

      Rifles and shotguns aren’t concealable and can be used for hunting.

      In this store they only carry hunting rifles (and I don’t think any are semi-automatic), though unfortunately the 21 law doesn’t prohibit the purchase of semiautomatic rifles like AR-15s to 18-20 year olds in other stores.