Posted on 09/02/2018 3:44:50 AM PDT by marktwain
In Oregon, a young woman has won a civil rights case against Walmart. A Walmart in Helena, Oregon refused to sell a rifle to young woman because she was not 21 years old. She sued Walmart and won under the Oregon Civil Rights law on age discrimination. From wweek.com:
The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries found this week that a Walmart store in St. Helens violated the state's nondiscrimination laws when it refused to sell a rifle to a woman who was not yet 21 years old.
Hannah Brumbles, 18, of Deer Island, Ore., filed a civil rights complaint with the state agency in April. She says Walmart discriminated against her by refusing to sell her a rifle, even though Oregon law says individuals over 18 may legally purchase firearms. BOLI agrees.
Federal law restricts the sale of rifles, from federal dealers, to people 18 or older.
In Oregon, the policy ran directly into the Oregon state law forbidding age discrimination. From oregonlaws.org:
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, all persons within the jurisdiction of this state are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of any place of public accommodation, without any distinction, discrimination or restriction on account of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status or age if the individual is of age, as described in this section, or older.
Federal age discrimination law does not apply in this circumstance.
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Federal age restrictions did not happen until 1968!
Well.. there is no age limit where you can teach two mommies and two daddies by public school mandate.
There is legal precedence on this too. Chicago Walgreens attempted to unilaterally raise the drinking age, and wouldn't sell alcohol to anyone under the age of 25, but a court told them no, they couldn't do that, the law says 21.
Good news about the victory.
I used to buy my .22 ammo for the weekend on my way home from the 6th grade on Friday afternoon. Not even a raised eyebrow.
My World War I veteran neighbor (when I was a teen! He’s now long gone) showed me the revolver he bought in 1912.
Over the counter.
From a hardware store.
At age 14.
I was born way too late... or early :)
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I’ll never cease to be amazed at people that pretend guns are the big reason for school shootings. Guns have been prevalent in the U.S. for a long, long time now. To say it’s guns implies that Americans weren’t armed in the 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, etc., but mass school shootings are a relatively recent phenomenon in the United States. In fact, they’re more frequent today despite guns being way more taboo in public schools now than in our past.
Something went very, very wrong with Millennial and Generation Z Americans. I can only surmise in a world of YouTube e-celebs who’ll do anything for attention, they want that easy, instant fame that comes with the widespread media coverage shooters receive. We get all the little details of, for example, Adam Lanza’s life, what his neighbors and classmates thought of him, his home life, details about his room and P.C. browsing history, etc. Must look like hog heaven to any attention-whoring narcissist.
“To say it’s guns implies that Americans weren’t armed in the 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, etc., but mass school shootings are a relatively recent phenomenon in the United States.”
My Mom, who is now 101, went to school on horseback in the ‘20’s. She said that boys brought guns in saddle holsters so they could hunt on the way home. If they shot something, they ate meat that night.
When I went to school in the late ‘60’s and early ‘70’s, it was common to see pickups in the school lot with rifle racks and a rifle in the back window. (Imagine what would happen if one showed up in a school lot today!)
When I was a kid I could have bought a gun at K-Mart. Ammo, however, required a driver’s license. They required your name, and DL information, which they recorded in a spiral notebook. (I remember this information was often used in fiction, like “Dragnet,” to find the killer had bought .38 caliber ammo just prior to killing the victim. Even then I laughed at this.)
A lot of things have happened to our culture. Men have been neutered out of being manly by feminist culture that pervades our schools and politics. There are more and more fatherless kids. The church and patriotism have been eliminated from the general life, thus removing higher purposes from individuals. The need for a higher purpose cut loose from God and country have led to perverse cultural ticks; transgenderism, cult of fame, men acting feminine, the list is endless.
Central MA, 1960's, Rexall drug store would sell me a box of .22 shorts as I was on my way home from 7th grade without batting a eye.
I hate the term “gun violence”!
It’s the people who are violent!
We NEVER hear the left use the word “violence” linked to the words “knife”, “bomb”, “car”, or “plane” when those items are used by truly evil people to commit mass murder.
But, of course, “evil” is such a harsh and judgmental word, so we musn’t apply it to any “poor widdle” person, just to their gun(s)!
Used to walk over to Gibson’s discount store and get a 50 rd box of Federal 22 LR hollow points for 25 cents a box or 5 boxes for a dollar. 25 cents was my lunch money for the day.
My first deer rifle was an 03 Springfield, I picked it out of about 20 that were in a galvanized trashcan in front of the counter at the local hardware store, 20 dollars.
In 1975 my junior high school History teacher took us to the range to fire his Kentucky rifle as part of learning about the Revolution.
A bunch of us brought shotguns, .22 rifles, 30-30 deer guns, etc, and stored them and the ammunition in the office of the Principal. After school we took them home on the bus.
Today we’d all be in prison.
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In the mail from Sears Roebuck 1950s.
I bought several guns before I was 16, including high powered rifles. As far I know there was no law against selling guns to anyone that had the money to buy it.
There wasn’t any paperwork to fill out either. Pay the money and walk out of the store carrying your new 30-30 Winchester and 4 boxes of ammo. That was the mid 60’s.
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Gays have a right to marry. But should not have a right for any specific business to sell them a cake.
Women have a right to abortion but should not have a right for their employer to provide abortion pills.
18 year olds have a right to guns but should not have a right for any specific business to sell them a gun.
I don’t care if the business is single-owner or closely held, or public. Government should stay out of it and let owners, shareholders, and customers (by purchasing or going somewhere else) determine what products a business provides and which customers it wants to serve.
We can talk about whether the individual rights should exist (abortion, marriage, age to own guns) but if they do, businesses should not be bound to enforce them.
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