U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- On March 9th, the Colorado House passed heavily debated Mandatory Storage Legislation, House Bill 1106. Despite thousands of emails and phone calls in opposition, the measure was passed by a 40 to 25 vote after evoking a heated exchange on the House Floor. HB 1106 now heads to the Senate for further consideration. Please contact your State Senator and ask them to OPPOSE House Bill 1106.
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House Bill 1106 imposes government-mandated standards for storing firearms, rendering a person’s firearm useless when needed for self-defense. This should be a matter of personal responsibility, as everyone’s situation is different.
As previously reported, this measure places an undue burden on law-abiding gun owners, while touting “crime prevention.” Littleton, CO recently passed a similar storage ordinance for gun dealers, mandating certain storage procedures and devices that have created huge financial restrictions for business owners. Further, the financial and physical requirements for abiding by this ordinance are nearly impossible to comply with.
Again, please contact your State Senator and urge them to OPPOSE House Bill 1106.
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Sounds like California, but we already have that stupid law. Want to know how they enforce it here? The gun clerk at the store asks what kind gun safe you own: model and make. He writes it down and gives you your gun. The laws in California are as ignorant as the people who wrote them.
Asking this for “a friend”, but didn’t the SCOTUS judge these type of laws unconstitutional in the HELLER VS DC decision some years back ?
“Held:
“3) …the requirement that any lawful firearm in the home be disassembled or bound by a trigger lock makes it impossible for citizens to use arms for the core lawful purpose of self-defense and is hence unconstitutional.” – D.C. v. Heller (2008)
Dicta:
“[A] statute which, under the pretense of regulating, amounts to a destruction of the right, or which requires arms to be so borne as to render them wholly useless for the purpose of defense [is] clearly unconstitutional.”
My house is my safe. Everything in my safe is secure and protected. You have no business in my safe unless I invite you.
Maybe the state senate should amend the bill to also require that the state police guarding the legislative chambers and officers be locked in the basement of the building, and only let out after a violent attack has occurred.
I just looked at the bill and it is fairly stupid as far as these bills go. I didn’t really see anything about enforcement, if I missed it can someone point it out(excluding the fines there is much) But I did see that there are a few huge holes in it. If you don’t give permission to your children, others etc. and they have access then you are in violation. However, if you give permission, you are not. Seems to be that all you have to do is to grant permission to whomever you wish and there you go. The… Read more »
Hiccupblooper forced MagPul to leave the States along with employees and the tax revenue over magazine size.
WOW! I had no idea that two adult males could do that to each other at the same time. Not my thing but an amazing video, nonetheless.
Every one of my guns is secured in one of three safes, except the one I am carrying, or is under my direct supervision. I don’t need a law to tell me to do that. If you own a firearm rather than buy the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th buy a safe. Then you can buy as many as you want and they will all be secured properly. Aside from your kids, or friends being unjured with your unsecured firearm you will not have to answer the door to a policeman telling you someone was killed with your stolen gun. Just… Read more »