# House raises the age to buy semi-automatic rifles to 21 (but unlikely to pass in the Senate) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-raises-the-age-to-buy-semi-automatic-rifles-to-21-but-unlikely-to-pass-in-the-senate/965901/2 "2022-06-09T01:01:19Z")
The most appropriate current thread was probably > [@Minmaxing gun laws](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minmaxing-gun-laws/965515): > > [As suggested by What Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-another-gun-thread/965314/24), I’m hoping to have a focused discussion of gun laws. To wit: what policy measures could be passed that would minimize the deleterious effects on gun owners, while maximizing the protection to human life? I’m leaving the “min” side deliberately ambiguous. A policy of knocking down doors, confiscating all guns, and shooting any resistors clearly doesn’t minimize the deleterious effects, whereas one that merely adds an extra apostrophe to the background check form probab… The most recently closed thread that would have been appropriate was > [@As a responsible gun owner, we as a country need to fix this gun violence problem!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-a-responsible-gun-owner-we-as-a-country-need-to-fix-this-gun-violence-problem/965697): > > There are many contributing factors to our problem. It’s an American problem. We love our guns. But we can’t keep having these mass shootings! Briefly about me — I did not grow up with guns. Until the military, I never fired a gun. I served from 1980-1993. I did not buy my first gun until about 2006. I now own several, and when my wife and I camp remotely I feel much more secure having my gun with me. I am now actively working to support the following: ● Universal background check for every g… Which were cross linked. But there’s bee a few closed threads, so not sure which ones you were in. Up to you if you want to ask a mod to merge, or if you wanted to focus instead on the new legislation, which (as stated in the two threads above) I’d be in favor of if the Senate can get enough Republican support. But I’m about 99% positive that even those few that have expressed mild support will back off at the last minute saying something banal like ‘they don’t want to rush to judgement’ and ‘to have a committee evaluate it fully’. IE they’ll table it and come back to it never. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-raises-the-age-to-buy-semi-automatic-rifles-to-21-but-unlikely-to-pass-in-the-senate/965901)._