CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- It looks like any proposal to lower Nevada's gambling age is dead.

The top Democrats in the legislature say they oppose lowering the gambling age from 21 to 18, and an aide says Gov. Jim Gibbons wouldn't support it.

The issue came up after state Gaming Control Board Chairman Dennis Neilander told a questioner at a conference last week that he'd take the suggestion to the 2009 Legislature.

Neilander says he can't take a position for or against the idea.  But he says lowering the gambling age would be hard to enforce.

With Democrats controlling both houses of the Legislature, Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford and Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley control the legislative agenda.

Horsford told the Las Vegas Review-Journal he understands why the issue came up, with the state looking for ways to increase gambling revenues.

But he says he'd oppose it and he doesn't think there's an appetite to consider it at this point.

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