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TexasTowelie

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Thu May 18, 2017, 08:24 PM May 2017

Louisiana Legislature could outlaw letting children use Uzis and other fully automatic guns, but ...

Louisiana Legislature could outlaw letting children use Uzis and other fully automatic guns, but bill has failed before

Louisiana could outlaw supplying kids 12 years old and younger with Uzi submachine guns and other fully automatic weapons under legislation that cleared a House committee Thursday.

House Bill 67, by Rep. Barbara Norton, D-Shreveport, would penalize adults who give, sell, lend and otherwise provide children with fully automatic weapons, which can shoot a stream of bullets with a single pull of the trigger.

Norton said her measure was inspired by a 9-year-old Arizona girl who was allowed to fire an Uzi submachine gun at a firing range and lost control of the weapon, killing her instructor in 2014. Norton's original bill only outlawed the small Israeli-made machine guns, but it was amended to include all fully automatic weapons.

Federal and state laws prevent handgun ownership of people under 17 with exceptions built in for kids who are at gun ranges, or are taking hunter and gun safety classes. But there are no age prohibitions in Louisiana on ownership of long guns, which include rifles and shotguns.

Read more: http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_6d3b0818-3bdb-11e7-bc2d-8bdffcc5627a.html
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Louisiana Legislature could outlaw letting children use Uzis and other fully automatic guns, but ... (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2017 OP
Too Young to Drive a Car or Drink a Beer, but Old Enough to Have an Uzi dlk May 2017 #1

dlk

(12,448 posts)
1. Too Young to Drive a Car or Drink a Beer, but Old Enough to Have an Uzi
Thu May 18, 2017, 08:28 PM
May 2017

Seriously? Is there anything more selfish and insane anywhere?

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