Should 18-year-olds be allowed to buy semi-automatic rifles? State and courts debate
Efforts by states to to raise the minimum age for buying a long rifle have been challenged in court by gun rights activists.
The mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y. last Saturday has renewed the debate over the minimum age for legally purchasing what some people â such as President Biden, call "weapons of war."
An 18-year-old is accused of driving to a supermarket and targeting African Americans as he opened fire, killing 10 people. He's charged with first-degree murder in a shooting authorities describe as racially-motivated domestic terrorism.
Police say he used a semi-automatic rifle called the which he bought legally at
