How old do you have to be to buy a gun in Virginia?

Answer 1

Federal law is 18 for long guns, 21 for hand guns.

One thing I will state is that in NZ where I am from you don't have to be 18.

But in Virginia I just reseached and you can sell a rifle or shotgun(defined by federal law) to anyone over 12 years of age.Handguns can be sold,transfered or otherwise supplied to anyone under 21 by a member of their family(E.G Father or Mother).You have to be 21 for a concealed carry permit and unless you have one,you can only purchase 1 New handgun a month(Unless you get it through a private sale,gun show etc).They ranked C-Minus in a recent study for the scale of their firearms legislation/laws(A is toughest New york,California,D.O.C etc F being most liberal Texas,Vermont,Nevada etc).

Hope this information helped as it wasn't a Copy & Paste job.I did the research my self and have the credible two-page article from "The Raw Story" link provided here:

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Buying_guns_ammo_easy_under_Virgini_04162007.HTML