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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3088762" data-attributes="member: 5412">Actually at one time we had to be 21 to buy .22rf by federal law. If the retailer asked you what the ammo was for, and you said pistol, you had to be 21 to buy it. If you answered rifle, you could buy it at 18. All ammo transactions were dutifully recorded in a spiral bound book and required to be kept by the retailer. The requirement to be 21 to buy beer was forced on the states back in the day by threat of withholding Federal funds for road construction, etc unless the age to drink was raised to 21. Kansas and several other states allowed 18 year olds in bars to drink beer.</blockquote>