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Representative Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., Voiced support for raising the minimum age for the purchase of firearms on Sunday after a wave of mass shootings by adults under the age of 21.
“I think raising the age of arms to 21 is pointless. “If you look at the shooting in Parkland, look at Buffalo, look at this shooting, these are people under the age of 21,” Kinzinger told ABC News.
“We know that the human brain develops and matures a lot between the ages of 18 and 21. We have just raised the age of buying cigarettes at the federal level to 21 without even blinking. I think we need to get there eventually. “
Representative Adam Kinsinger, a Republican from Illinois, listened during a hearing at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, Tuesday, October 19, 2021 (Sarah Silbiger / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The suspected shooter in an elementary school shooting earlier this week in Uwalde, Texas, bought two AR-15 rifles and hundreds of rounds just days after turning 18.
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He tried to buy a gun when he was 17 last year with the help of his sister, but she “flatly refused”, Texas Public Safety Director Stephen McCrow said on Friday.
The 18-year-old Buffalo supermarket suspect had a rifle and shotgun earlier this month, authorities said, but had ammunition stores that were banned in New York.
Children flee to safety after fleeing a window during a mass shooting at Rob Elementary School, where a gunman killed nineteen children and two adults in Uvalde, Texas, USA, May 24, 2022. (Pete Luna / Uvalde Leader-News / Handout via REUTERS)
In the other shooting, quoted by Kinsinger, Nicholas Cruz bought an AR-15 rifle when he was 18 before embarking on a shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17 people.
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Senators are holding behind-the-scenes bipartisan talks on potential arms control legislation following the Uwalde shooting.
Marnie Biel of Arlington, Virginia, holds a plaque on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Senate calling for background checks on gun purchases on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, following the latest mass shooting at a Texas primary school (Tom Williams / CQ – Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
Leader of the minority in the Senate Mitch McConnellR-Ky., Has instructed Texas Sen. John Cornin, R designed to address this particular issue. “
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Long-range legislation such as restoring the federal ban on assault weapons seems unlikely, but the Red Flag Act, increased mental health aid and school tempering funds may be on the table.
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