During a conversation today with a Cabelas gun library clerk I mentioned that I was looking to buy a handgun and wanted to know what a good price for a 1911 was. He was going to show me a RIA, when I mentioned I was 19 so I couldn't handle the handguns in store. He informed me that federal law states it's a felony for anyone under 21 to possess a handgun. I told him that (my state's) law is that 18 year olds can open carry so that couldn't be right. He reaffirmed that if I bought a gun ftf as I was planning, or even had one at a range (without a parent or legal guardian) I would be breaking the law. This can't be true can it?
>>33634313
You can have handgat at 18 but cant buy from dealer until 21. Private sales
IDK anon, stop being a stupid 19 year old or start carring a sawed off in your pants like teenagers are supposed to do.
>>33634313
>He informed me that federal law states it's a felony for anyone under 21 to possess a handgun.
Nope. You just can't buy one from an FFL. Private transfers are OK.
What he's confusing it with is the Youth Handgun Safety Act, which makes it illegal for a "juvenile" to posses a handgun, barring certain exceptions.
http://www.colorado4h.org/ss/forms/youth-handgun-safety-act.pdf
I had one of those faggots do the same thing to me when I went to the range once. I could shoot the AR15 and 15-22 that the group had brought all day long, but God forbid I shoot a family member's carry gun.
>>33634356
Ok, so I CAN legally have a pistol then. Thanks.
>>33634313
You should know that people in hourly jobs like that generally only know enough to be able to function at their job without being fired and nothing more. Sometimes not even that.
>>33634313
>handgat
not old enough yet
>>33635937
Correct.
>>33634313
You can't buy a handgun from a licensed dealer, but you can buy one in a private sale.
>>33634356
Fucking Jews letting Niggers ruin everything.
>>33636050
Why?
Federal Law supercedes State Law. Stay in school kid.
>>33638267
What law says that 18-20 is banned from possessing?