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Firearm safety programs for minors, which are exempt from the possession prohibition under certain conditions.
makes it a crime for anyone under 18 to “,” but it carves express exceptions for rifles and shotguns tied to , supervised target practice, and compliance with short‑barrel prohibitions—principally cod...
, then 17, arrived in armed with an AR-15–style semiautomatic rifle and used it to shoot three people, killing two and wounding another . Prosecutors charged him with unlawful possession of a firearm ...
in 2020 made it a Class A misdemeanor for anyone under 18 to “possess or go armed with a dangerous weapon,” but it carved explicit, narrow exceptions that treated long guns (rifles and shotguns) diffe...