GunsFinding
South Carolina should raise the minimum age to buy any firearm to 21.
Adults 18 and older can currently buy rifles and shotguns in South Carolina, while federal law sets 21 for handgun sales by licensed dealers. This would make 21 the minimum age for all gun purchases in the state.
Jermaine Johnson
We're making guns available for kids who are 18 years of age, who are some of them who are still in high school, who don't have the, the complete development of their, of their brains, yet they're going to go out there and they're going to make irrational decisions.
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