Iowa Bill Would Allow Children to Use Handguns with ‘Parental Supervision’

A new bill in Iowa would allow children under the age of 14 to use handguns under parental supervision.

A boy with his mother holds a toy pistol at a barricade outside the police regional building seized by the separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk on April 17, 2014. GENYA SAVILOV/AFP/Getty Images

A new bill in Iowa would allow children under the age of 14 to use handguns under parental supervision. 

“Supervision” is defined in the bill as keeping verbal and visual contact at all times with a parent, guardian, or spouse who is 21 years or older. 

In Iowa, it’s already legal for children to use long guns and shotguns with parental supervision. 

Allowing people to learn at a young age the respect that a gun commands is one of the most important things you can do.

— State Rep. Jake Highfill