# House raises the age to buy semi-automatic rifles to 21 (but unlikely to pass in the Senate)

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**Created:** [June 9, 2022, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-raises-the-age-to-buy-semi-automatic-rifles-to-21-but-unlikely-to-pass-in-the-senate/965901 "2022-06-09T00:37:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-raises-the-age-to-buy-semi-automatic-rifles-to-21-but-unlikely-to-pass-in-the-senate/965901/144 "2022-06-13T19:36:40Z")

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> > [@pkbites](#):
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> > Another thought: if a person is clearly a danger to himself an/or others, why take his guns. Why not institutionalize him? Being a danger to ones self or others is a justified reason for commitment.
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> So you’d rather see someone’s liberty taken away, even though that’s protected by the 5th and 14th Amendments, than having their guns taken away? Second Amendment rights are are more important than liberty rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments?

Red flag laws also routinely violate the 5th and 6th Amendment and you seem to have no problem with that.

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