HB1223 would reduce the minimum age requirement to buy, sell, or transfer a firearm from 21 to 18.
The House passed HB1223 on March 1, 2024, by a vote of 76 to 35. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because this bill would remove the state’s minimum age requirement that prevents a person younger than 21 from purchasing a firearm, which is both unconstitutional and more restrictive than current federal law. The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution expressly declares that the right of the American people “to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”