18 year olds and pistols

[thom]

What are the Az laws concerning 18 year olds buying or selling pistols in our fine state?

 

[shorepatrol]

They can carry but cant buy until 21

 

[Ballistic Therapy]

I know they can't legally buy from a dealer , but I believe there is no law prohibiting them from buying a handgun from a private person.

 

[Tenring]

I know they can't legally buy from a dealer , but I believe there is no law prohibiting them from buying a handgun from a private person.

This is my understanding as well.

 

[Joe_Blacke]

Yeah, but there can’t buy ammo for the pistol until 21. Unless they also get that via private party or reload it.

 

[sonofbp]

It is perfectly legal to sell/purchase a pistol in AZ @ 18yrs old via private sale.

The only restriction is that an FFL cannot sell a pistol or pistol ammunition to anyone under 21.
When I was 18 I would normally just drive to multiple smaller shops looking for ammo and explain that I was buying the 9mm ammunition for my 9mm rifle (really miss my camp9). Which should be even easier now that PCCs are so much more popular.

It's cringey AF seeing people refuse to sell to anyone <21 via private sale when it's perfefctly legal.
It's almost as bad as wanting a buyer to meet them at an ffl for a bgc/transfer or demanding a copy of the DL for their bill of sale and "records".

 

[Ballistic Therapy]

I was buying ammo from a store when I was 10 years old.
My brothers and I would collect pop bottles along the highway and trade them in for ammo.
Of course that was a little while ago.

 

[thom]

Thanks for the information. Even the Giffords.org says 18 for pistols. Anyone old enough to vote IN ARIZONA, is legal to buy or sell a firearm.

 

[PK90]

Don't the 18 year olds have friends over 21? There is no law against buying ammo for someone else. Cigs and guns, yes.

 

[Huckleberry]

Hmmm, straw purchase for ammo. That's an interesting question, I'm going to have to research that one.

 

[Cmoor]

I have been buying ammo since I was 12 years old... At 12 I would go hunting and shooting with my 12 gauge by myself too.