Oregon sees push for strictest gun storage law in US
Source: Associated Press
Andrew Selsky, Associated Press
Updated 6:05 pm CDT, Wednesday, September 18, 2019
SALEM, Ore. (AP) Carol Manstrom says she lost her 18-year-old son when he grabbed his father's unsecured pistol and shot himself. Paul Kemp lost his brother-in-law when a man opened fire with a stolen AR-15 assault-style rifle at a shopping mall.
On Wednesday, Manstrom and Kemp helped deliver 2,000 signatures to Oregon's elections office as part of an effort to get a measure on the 2020 ballot that would create the stiffest law in America requiring the safe storage of firearms.
The initiative would require guns to be secured with a trigger or cable lock, or in a locked container. It also mandates that a lost or stolen firearm be reported within 24 hours and makes violators of the measure liable for any injury from an unsecured weapon, except in matters of self-defense or defense of another person.
Massachusetts is the only state in the country that requires all people to keep their firearms safely stored when not under their immediate control, said Allison Anderman, managing attorney at Giffords, a gun-control advocacy group. The Oregon initiative goes further because each violation can carry a fine up to $2,000.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/A-push-in-Oregon-for-nation-s-strongest-weapons-14450093.php
Tennessee Tuxedo
(36 posts)In a safe, I have instant access. I don't agree with trigger locks because you may not have time to unlock then load it in an emergency.
Agree that guns need to be secured when you are not home but if you don't have children then you should not have to have them locked up when you are home. I always have a gun out when I am home if need be.
Also trigger locks and cables do not keep someone who has stolen
them from being able to use the firearms. A dremel will get it unlocked in a few moments.
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)PhoenixDem
(581 posts)The more the guns are regulated the better.
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The Mouth
(3,148 posts)Much better.
Works almost instantly, but no one else can get to it. Yeah, a combination as back up if battery fails.
I like and have guns, but yes, anyone not reporting a stolen one IMMEDIATELY should be held liable, and anyone not storing one properly is an idiot who shouldn't even have one.