Indiana Republican Says 18-Year-Olds Don’t Need a Gun That Shoots ’69 Rounds in Less Than a Minute’

Indiana State Sen. Ron Alting (R) is pushing legislation to ban “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines, and also to raise the minimum legal age for certain long gun purchases.

Alting’s legislation, Senate Bill 361, “Makes it a Level 6 felony for a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed dealer, or licensed collector to knowingly or intentionally sell or deliver a semiautomatic assault weapon or a large capacity ammunition feeding device to a person who is less than 21 years of age.”

WLFI quoted Alting saying, “This bill is not going to solve all that, but it just comes to beg the question with just common sense: Does an 18-year-old really, really need a weapon that’s going to 69 rounds in less than a minute?”

Alting did not explain which semiautomatic rifle fires 69 rounds in under a minute.

However, he did say, “We’re a very, very strong NRA state. We’re very strong NRA in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. I expect a lot of push back on this.”

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