Minimum Age to Purchase & Possess¶
Giffords Law Center. (2026). Minimum Age to Purchase & Possess.
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Primes¶
- Quantifier
- A firearms statute reads "no firearm shall be sold to a person under twenty-one": the scope operator is universal-negative over the domain of sales, so the falsification condition is a single counterexample (one underage sale), and the negation transformation the prime names puts the burden on the seller to verify age for every transaction — restated as a generic ("firearms shall not generally be sold to minors") the same words would admit exceptions and shift the burden, a different truth condition entirely.
This sourceSummarizes the federal Gun Control Act rule (18 U.S.C. § 922(b)(1)) barring licensed dealers from selling a handgun to any person under 21 — a universal-negative age restriction enforced per transaction, the worked statutory example of a universal-negative quantifier.
- A firearms statute reads "no firearm shall be sold to a person under twenty-one": the scope operator is universal-negative over the domain of sales, so the falsification condition is a single counterexample (one underage sale), and the negation transformation the prime names puts the burden on the seller to verify age for every transaction — restated as a generic ("firearms shall not generally be sold to minors") the same words would admit exceptions and shift the burden, a different truth condition entirely.
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