You are not correct. At 18 you can get your hand gun permit in Indiana and many other states. On my 18th birthday I started my paperwork for mine. Yes you can carry a hand gun at 18 I did. My daughter sent her paperwork in at 18.

You can not buy a hand gun from a licensed dealer untill you are 21 but privet sells are ok along with gifts. Exampel dad can gift to son.



My kids have axcess to their guns. Rimfire, centerfire, shotguns, airguns, and know how to get and use the handguns. I feel sorry for those that dont have kids responsiable enought to grab a gun and go hunting or run a trap line. And my kids have been doing so since they were 7.

Teach and give responsiability by doing and giving it to them. Now they treat 17 year olds like kids. Anyone remember when people got married and moved out on their own at 15. Now 30 year olds live in mom and dads basement and grandparrents are raising the grand kids in a lot of homes. The kids needed given responsiability and the ability to fail. Not mom and dad making sure everything goes well and is sucessful

Liked that.

When I was a kid, I snuck a peek and touch to my dad's revolver multiple times. I knew where he kept it, and I got into it even though I'd been told not to.

When my son was in elementary school, at the urging of friends he climbed up to the top shelf of our closet, took down my .22 Ruger revolver, and showed it to his friends. Boy, did we hear from the other kids' parents when the story got out! He'd been instructed in gun safety, and told several times not to touch my firearms unless I was there.

Kids aren't little robots. You can't program them to behave always the way you'd like them to. They're susceptible to temptation and other influences--just like Adam and Eve.

Jim

Looks like we're both wrong? Appears it IS 18 and not 21 as you said, but someone under 18 can only possess one for a specific purpose AND with written permission on his person.

https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/re...um-age-to-purchase-and-possess-handguns/

Not sure how many kids die each year from getting curious about a gun and pulling a trigger and killing themselves, a sibling or friend. Guess its just all bad kids and bad parenting, the imperfect group. Seems to me just common sense locking up guns be it a curious kid or thief's.

Probably fewer than the number who play with matches/lighters.

J.staton do some research and take a look at how many accidental discharge incidents there are in the US., You can even do some research on what the military reports and law enforcement agencies and Im not talking the ones where the gun is pointed in the safe direction, I'm talking about with injury. I guess there are a lot of kids that never learn, If it can happen it will. Even the NRA supports keep guns locked and away from children

When I was a kid, I snuck a peek and touch to my dad's revolver multiple times. I knew where he kept it, and I got into it even though I'd been told not to.

When my son was in elementary school, at the urging of friends he climbed up to the top shelf of our closet, took down my .22 Ruger revolver, and showed it to his friends. Boy, did we hear from the other kids' parents when the story got out! He'd been instructed in gun safety, and told several times not to touch my firearms unless I was there.

Kids aren't little robots. You can't program them to behave always the way you'd like them to. They're susceptible to temptation and other influences--just like Adam and Eve.

Jim

J.staton do some research and take a look at how many accidental discharge incidents there are in the US., You can even do some research on what the military reports and law enforcement agencies and Im not talking the ones where the gun is pointed in the safe direction, I'm talking about with injury. I guess there are a lot of kids that never learn, If it can happen it will. Even the NRA supports keep guns locked and away from children

The problem is the kid was likely raised on social media and influenced by wingnuts.