Another Hand Tip

Go read it yourself.

I say 30. The minimum age for gun ownership should be 30, not just the CCW permit, but gun ownership. I’m willing to negotiate that down to 25. That would still make the world a lot safer.

-Michael Bonomo

But what’s more important is the response:

And that might work, Mike. Someone here commented that most gun permit holders are males in their 40s.

-Joan Peterson President of Minnesota Million Mom March, Board Member of the Brady Campaign, and worker for the Joyce Foundation.

Just kinda grabbed that number out of thin air, and expressed in denying the rights of all below. Why not make the age to own guns 40? Why not 140?

Why on earth would they say they want to ban guns? I mean they only want to take your guns away until your older.

FYI I bought my first gun when I was 26.

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0 Responses to Another Hand Tip

  1. Gun ownership? 30? Plus training?

    How about voting responsibly? 40? Plus an IQ test?

    Starting a family? 25? License for each child?

  2. bluesun says:

    23, here, and I’ve been certified by the state of Colorado as having no criminal record and as having taken training involving the function and legality of use of concealed pistols. And you can have my guns when you take them from my cold, dead hands, if you pardon the cliche. Unless we’re at a range and you let me try yours, too!

  3. Old NFO says:

    Ridiculous, as usual, but they keep trying to get the nose under the tent… I bought my first gun at 18…

  4. NightPaws says:

    Wouldn’t an age restriction make it even worse? Think about all of the kids out there who smoke, drink, and check out porn before they reach 18 or 21 just because they can do it. It’s human nature to test the boundaries of things like that.

    I’d rather see some sort of approval/licensing process needed to have kids.

  5. Mike W. says:

    Hmm. I’m 25, owned guns since I was 21 and got my CCW at 22. Just because they can’t act responsibly and control themselves in old age doesn’t mean I can’t do so at my young age.

  6. James says:

    Got my first gun at 14, bought my first rifle at 18, bought my first few handguns while I was 18 via private transfers.
    Not a one of those guns has ever committed a crime.
    Age is not an immediate indicator of maturity nor capability to enable or prevent harm to another human being.

  7. I say the time a man should show his ignorance and bigotry is the present. Why? To call them on it and expose them for who and what they are.

  8. Bob S. says:

    I’ve been asking Joan if:

    A woman is too immature decide whether or not to have an abortion at 18.

    Couples are too immature to decide whether or not to marry at 18.

    People are too immature to decide whether or not to have children at 18.

    Time and time again I’ve asked those questions and more; time and time again, she’s chosen to ignore it.

    That tells me there agenda isn’t to make people safer, to improve society – otherwise they would be applying the same restrictions across the board — but simply to remove firearms from society.

    Also, someone has been asking questions to Michael wondering at what age did he legally and illegally own firearms. Care to bet it was way before 30?

  9. Reputo says:

    I got my first gun when I was 15 (private transfer) as a gift. I bought my first gun when I was 22 (private sale) when the apartment manager had an auction for all of the stuff people left in their apartments when they moved. My daughter got her first gun when she was 8.

  10. TJP says:

    Okay, I’m over 30. Can I pick up my machinegun now? No really, I’m all for this. Can we also make voting illegal until the age of 30? Yeah a realize there’s an amendment that deals with this, but what they hell, they ignore the Second Amendment.

    If you need any further explanation for the linked blog, this sums it up:

    “[W]e’re not talking about the out-and-out criminals. We’re talking about the ‘hidden crominals’ among you so-called legitimate gun owners.”&nbsp –mikeb0347rudkufh923y5902hdsiuhgf9

    See? It’s just postulation. You can’t win an argument inside the imagination of some other person.

  11. RobertM says:

    I bought my first gun when I was 20, but I’d had access to guns all my life and was given guns to keep in my own room since I was 12 or 13. I’ve never used a gun against another human being, either justifiably or not.

  12. maddmedic says:

    How about a have to be 25 married for 3 years before you can even think about having children?
    Set driving age at 25 also.
    No voting until you’ve taken a test on the Constitution and Bill of Rights! After you have finished your “Higher Education” gotten your degree and worked for at least 3 years?

    I cannot remember when I bought my first gun! But I purchased my first and second handguns at gunshows, in Public Schools!!! Musta been 20 or so at the time.

    These people are morons. As Weerd has so recently pointed out we have so many “gun deaths” caused by other inanimate objects and yet we hear nothing from these yahoos about them!
    Yet the Gun is so damn evil to them….
    Bleh….the fight for our rights goes on…

  13. Chris in Texas says:

    I’m 27. I was given my first gun (my dad’s old single-shot .22) when I was 8. I saved up and my dad bought me a 10/22 when I was 14. I bought an SKS on my 18th birthday, and a .22 pistol on my 21st. I had my .45 and a CHL by the time I was 23. After than it’s been about 1-2 guns a year. Handguns, rifles, shotguns, even the evil AK clone that the anti’s hate so much. And apart from a speeding ticket or two, I’ve never been on the wrong side of the law. Why can’t I be trusted with guns?

  14. Linoge says:

    First gun at 22. First concealed carry license at 24. First time carrying at 26 (the original permit was more of a political decision than self-defense one).

    And yet I have somehow managed to not shoot anyone in those intervening years. Wierd.

    It always amuses and concerns me when anti-rights nuts plainly display a marked lack of understanding of basic mathetmatics – if ‘most’ gun [carry] permit holders are over 40, that means some are not. That means they will be arbitrarily stripping away one of the most basic rights from a certain section of people on the basis of nothing more compelling or powerful than their own whimsy. That simply cannot be tolerated.

    As an exercise, it might be interesting to pose as an anti-rights nut, and propose stripping away the right to bear arms from blacks… After all, they are the most populous demographic in prison, so we obviously cannot trust them with firearms! [/sarc] ‘T’would be intriguing to see Bonomo’s and Peterson’s reactions…

    • Weerd Beard says:

      Hey I’d love to hear the story of you getting your CCW permit, and the steps between then and now as far as carry goes.

      I’m almost in your shoes in that I APPLIED for a carry permit at 26, but was denied by Massachusetts stupid laws, and only got a permit to own. was 4 years later when I bought the house that I got a real-deal carry permit.

      I certainly wasn’t interested in carrying at 26, just wanted to buy a gun, and liked the idea of a permit that would allow me to carry it whenever I so felt fit. Later I felt very comfortable with the idea of always being armed (and was always armed, either with OC spray, a knife, or both, and later was carrying most of the time while at home) but of course I was unable to get the restriction lifted from my permit until 2 years ago.

      • Linoge says:

        Nothing too terribly exciting… Lived in Florida at the time, was going to be moving to Kalifornistan in the near future, and it was a time when concealed carriers were getting more and more press and attention. I figured it would be better to have the license than not, that getting it while I could would be wise, and that adding my law-abiding personage to the ranks of law-abiding permit holders would only help the statistics.

        Hell, at the time, the only firearm owned was a Kalifornistan-legal Baby Eagle, and no holster.

        Now that I can keep renewing it as an out-of-state-er, though, that was probably one of my better investments… 🙂

  15. Wally says:

    18 for my first rifle, 21 for my first handgun, Was not until 34 that I built a gun from scratch….

  16. RuffRidr says:

    Nonsense! Just like everything else that comes out of these idiot’s mouths. Mike, Joan, Guy, and the rest of them can come up with all of the fantasy gun laws they want. Without support they’ve got a snowballs chance in hell at them getting implemented. I think there is no question right now that they are without support.

    Let’s just keep doing what we’re doing (winning) and ignore these self-righteous little schmucks.

    • Weerd Beard says:

      You speak true. That’s why I don’t bother with Bonomo and his Cabal anymore, what good is proving a friendless idiot wrong? But Joan at least has fsome credentials that just might be able to get her the ear of a congressman or senator.

      If we keeep it up the Brady Campaign and the Joyce puppets will have as much political capital as the Temperance Movement.

      • RuffRidr says:

        If we keeep it up the Brady Campaign and the Joyce puppets will have as much political capital as the Temperance Movement.

        I’ll drink to that.

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