Seif5034
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I'm just annoyed and venting:banghead:
What do you wait for to turn 18? All throughout my childhood I just couldn't wait to get older. Now I've hit the monumental age of 18 and find myself wondering what the hype was about...At 16 years old you can drive a car. At 17, you can get into a rated R movie. But what about that "famous" age of 18? What is soo great that you can do on your 18th birthday that you couldn't the day before?
You can view so-called "Adult" entertainment. You get the joy of credit cards. You can legally buy cigarettes. You can work in a factory type setting. You can move out of your parents house. You can order things off T.V.. You can win contest prizes. You can get married and start a family.You can join the military. You cannot however walk into a licensed gun shop and buy a handgun and some ammunition to protect youself out on the streets.
The current law in all it's wisdom forces peoplein that in-between period tofly under the radar to obtain a handgun.. I almost feel like I'm doing something illegal trying to buy a handgun and purposly avoiding FFL's.What kind of message does that put in our heads? "If the government doesn't like it, do it behind the government's back!"We can't even get the people we trust to buy us handguns because of that lovely thing called straw purchasing.
So is a young adult not and adult? Are we not people too? I understand the apprehension of lawmakers to putpistols into the hands of us young bucks but don't insult us. Not all of us are binge-drinking, horrible-driving, sexually irresponsible, wannabe gangsters.
I'm Yankee J, and that's my $.02
I'm just annoyed and venting:banghead:
What do you wait for to turn 18? All throughout my childhood I just couldn't wait to get older. Now I've hit the monumental age of 18 and find myself wondering what the hype was about...At 16 years old you can drive a car. At 17, you can get into a rated R movie. But what about that "famous" age of 18? What is soo great that you can do on your 18th birthday that you couldn't the day before?
You can view so-called "Adult" entertainment. You get the joy of credit cards. You can legally buy cigarettes. You can work in a factory type setting. You can move out of your parents house. You can order things off T.V.. You can win contest prizes. You can get married and start a family.You can join the military. You cannot however walk into a licensed gun shop and buy a handgun and some ammunition to protect youself out on the streets.
The current law in all it's wisdom forces peoplein that in-between period tofly under the radar to obtain a handgun.. I almost feel like I'm doing something illegal trying to buy a handgun and purposly avoiding FFL's.What kind of message does that put in our heads? "If the government doesn't like it, do it behind the government's back!"We can't even get the people we trust to buy us handguns because of that lovely thing called straw purchasing.
So is a young adult not and adult? Are we not people too? I understand the apprehension of lawmakers to putpistols into the hands of us young bucks but don't insult us. Not all of us are binge-drinking, horrible-driving, sexually irresponsible, wannabe gangsters.
I'm Yankee J, and that's my $.02