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Originally Posted by DAB
originally you could vote if you were 21, later changed to 18. so that right has an age limit to it. congress has decided that owning a gun comes at 18 or 21 (rifle or pistol). if you want to challenge that, good luck. we generally treat anyone 18 or over as an adult, able to enter into contracts and liable to the law (not children's court). so i don't see that changing anytime. but you can loan an underage person a gun in some cases, they just can't own it directly.
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If they are adults at 18, why do they have to be 21 to drink?