dnewton3
Staff member
Originally Posted By: Alfred_B
Originally Posted By: fdcg27
A number of retailers have set minimum age requirements for the purchase of certain firearms.
This is of course a knee-jerk PR response to the recent tragedy in Florida.
While I personally think that the time has long since passed for some sensible regulation of firearm purchases and ownership, I think that we should be looking to our elected representatives for this and not a bunch of mass-market retailers.
I wonder whether a retailer may impose its own age requirements for the purchase of any good absent the authority of law?
We'll soon know the answer, since the test cases are no doubt already being formed and the NRA will vigorously defend the rights of people to buy and own firearms without age limits set by retailers independent of any legal authority.
I personally think that these retailers are acting illegally and they already know this.
They're just making some cheap PR points using the blood of the innocent victims of a mentally ill shooter.
Discriminating against young is perfectly legal. The young are not a federally protected class.
Need to be more specific ...
Age (young and old, as long as they are adults) is a protected class in terms of employment.
It is not for retail sales. Yet ...
However, for any retailer that wants to voluntarily discriminate on age (as does Walmart, *****, and others currently trending), there are plenty of legally viable gun dealers or other brokers more than willing. Free market will prevail in that sense.
Originally Posted By: fdcg27
A number of retailers have set minimum age requirements for the purchase of certain firearms.
This is of course a knee-jerk PR response to the recent tragedy in Florida.
While I personally think that the time has long since passed for some sensible regulation of firearm purchases and ownership, I think that we should be looking to our elected representatives for this and not a bunch of mass-market retailers.
I wonder whether a retailer may impose its own age requirements for the purchase of any good absent the authority of law?
We'll soon know the answer, since the test cases are no doubt already being formed and the NRA will vigorously defend the rights of people to buy and own firearms without age limits set by retailers independent of any legal authority.
I personally think that these retailers are acting illegally and they already know this.
They're just making some cheap PR points using the blood of the innocent victims of a mentally ill shooter.
Discriminating against young is perfectly legal. The young are not a federally protected class.
Need to be more specific ...
Age (young and old, as long as they are adults) is a protected class in terms of employment.
It is not for retail sales. Yet ...
However, for any retailer that wants to voluntarily discriminate on age (as does Walmart, *****, and others currently trending), there are plenty of legally viable gun dealers or other brokers more than willing. Free market will prevail in that sense.
