# 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:** 24
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-raises-the-age-to-buy-semi-automatic-rifles-to-21-but-unlikely-to-pass-in-the-senate/965901/24 "2022-06-09T04:17:08Z")
Here’s a relevant post from another thread. Short version: Gun laws in Canada have been very strict and very effective for many decades and are about to get even stronger. Age limits to above 18 are not among either existing laws or new proposals. They’re very unlikely to do anything useful in a society already saturated with guns and seems to be just another feel-good smokescreen for “gun control” while actually accomplishing little or nothing. Pretty damn hypocritical, too, when you consider that 18 was the age of draft eligibility to be sent to Vietnam to kill and possibly to be killed. > [@Canadian government introduces stricter gun control legislation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-government-introduces-stricter-gun-control-legislation/965696/19): > > A couple of points I wanted to make. [In a post in another thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-a-responsible-gun-owner-we-as-a-country-need-to-fix-this-gun-violence-problem/965697/117) in which a gun owner suggests a number of “common-sense proposals” for stronger gun control in the US, I guesstimated that those proposals might (optimistically) reduce gun violence by about 35%, which is remarkably close to the New York Times estimate. I also pointed out that achieving such a reduction would still leave mass shootings happening at more than one mass shooting every single day (it’s currently at about 1.54 per da… --- _[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)._