Thursday, March 28, 2024

Manchin Supports Raising Age Limit on Guns, Open to Assault Weapons Ban

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Sen. (D-W.Va.) told reporters Monday that he supports raising the age for buying semi-automatic rifles and is open to an assault weapons ban.

Commenting on the availability of the , the West Democrat told he doesn't see a need for “that type of a high-capacity automatic weapon.”

Contrary to popular opinion, the AR in AR-15 stands for ArmaLite Rifle, not “assault rifle.”

It is a semi-automatic firearm.

The Hill has more on Manchin's stance:

Speaking to CNN's Manu Raju, Manchin said he supports raising the purchase age for such weapons following the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, carried out by an 18-year-old suspect who legally purchased two rifles.

“We know we can do something that would have prevented this. Raising the age, making sure that the age at least gives us a chance to work with that person, see and evaluate if they have a little maturity to them,” Manchin said Monday.

Manchin added he's “open to doing something that makes sense” regarding age-based restrictions, adding he believes raising the minimum age to purchase semi-automatic weapons could potentially curb gun violence.

Manchin further added that while he enjoys shooting, he doesn't see why anyone needs an AR-15.

A bipartisan group of senators has been discussing a range of measures recently, including expanded background checks, following the shooting in Uvalde and other mass shootings.

Mass shootings over the weekend left at least a dozen Americans dead and over 60 injured. The two deadliest were in Philadelphia and Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Patrick Houck
Patrick Houck
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16 COMMENTS

  1. If you can fight for your country at 18 years old, you should be able to buy a gun!!!!!!!

  2. Sure wish they would quit calling an AR15 an assault rifles. I guess that any semi automatic rifle or pistol they would call them all assault weapons.

  3. In my opinion this is outrageous. If 18 year olds are asked or told they have to join the armed forces and go fight and possibly die for these people in Washington D.C, ; the majority of them that would never go fight themselves because they are either cowards or think they are too good to fight for their own freedom then these 18 year olds should be able to purchase the same type of handguns or rifles they would be using to defend this country.

  4. Yeah. Let’s open the door wide for continued future ‘selective’ banning of guns which are STILL protected by our Constitution – oh, but I forgot – Blinden believes our Constitution is “…fraudulent…” His word. Banning ANY gun supports this belief.

  5. As Dianne Feinstien found out, if you replace the stock and a few other parts, it’s no longer a military weapon, and cannot be regulated as such.

  6. Joe Manchin for President!
    It is time we have common sense in Politics.
    21 to purchase
    National clearinghouse
    Gun Buyer ID card

    • No way Jim. You better get one because you and other democrats are going to need them to continue this “revolution” much further.

  7. We have gotten used to the Joe Manchin that every once in a while, represents his constituents. But at the end of the day, he is still a democrat and will say stupid things like he doesn’t understand why anyone would need a rifle that might stand a chance of taking down a tyrannical government that he is part of. None of your “representatives” will ever go along with the Constitution in that regard or concede that the 2A is about that. OK, maybe Rand Paul but he is not a democrat or a commie. Right now, most of the democrats in Washington are commies. 25% of the House belongs to the Progressive Caucus. Might as well call it the communist caucus because that is what it is. Democratic Socialists, like AOC or Bernie Sanders, same thing. Commies always talk about democracy, is that what they have in Russia, China, North Korea, well here’s what Google says about North Korea, you be the judge, “The constitution of North Korea] defines North Korea as ‘a dictatorship of people’s democracy’ under the leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), which is given legal supremacy over other political parties.” Kind of like democrats in America right now. Both systems have a moron, seemingly, in charge, too. So, Joe Manchin for president, no way. When everything is said and done, the Joes will stick together on anything important to their commie fanatics and call themselves the “progressive” party. Progress is measured by these guys in how much of America has been turned to s*** and how much closer they are to their Marxist, socialist, utopia.

  8. So how are you going to ban the gangs, the Cartels and Clintons hinge folks from using guns you know Semi automatic and fully automatic? because I am pretty sure they don’t care about bans or laws! So if America is a gun free America I am thinking we are open for hunting season on citizen by the Cartels and Gangs. so we become Mexico and every other country where the Gangs rule

  9. Interesting how soon people forget that “assault” weapons were banned under Clinton. Do you remember how much crime dropped? NOT ONE TICK!

  10. Calling every shooting a mass shooting is not correct and adds to the problems in solving this issue. Today 3 political leaders from Philadelphia were interviewed about the shooting in Philadelphia, they said the city prosecutor (George Soros funded) letting out violent criminals back on the street is one of the problems and the shut down of the pandemics was another isolating the youth. This was 2 African Americans carrying guns that got in to an argument and started shooting each other. The police shot the gun out of the hand of one as he shot into the crowd and another police tried to take a shooting victim to the hospital in his squad car and a group of minority youth surrounded the police car not allowing it to proceed to the hospital while shouting F–K the police and the girl died in the police car. I watched all the videos this morning.  These are not mass shooting and the media is lumping together all the chaos around the country into the mass shooting category is incorrect. 

  11. It has to do with mental health. The mental health of Washington, and State politicians. Their the ones who are mentally ill and need to be in an institution.

  12. If we want change, we have to be willing to step up and voice solutions. At least Matthew McConaughey voiced his solution. It is a start. You know the folks in DC pay attention to this publication, it might be what we need as a nation. If you have a valid solution, write your senators, congressman, local government officials and any other site you can get your point across. It does no good to point fingers. “If there is a problem, be a part of the solution.” Do not just sit there and complain. Personally, I feel we just need to use the laws on the books about guns and enforce them. We already have too many laws, just enforce the one’s we have on the books. The other thing is “pray” for all of our leaders that they may act just and fair concerning all. Even if we do not like them, prayer or positive thoughts can change a nation.

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