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Posted on 03/26/2026 6:40:54 AM PDT by marktwain
Arizona Senate Bill 1424 has passed the Senate and has passed the House Education Committee and the House Rules Committee. The bill requires school districts and charter schools to provide age-appropriate firearm safety awareness training in all grades, kindergarten through 12th grade.
The instruction is to be objective and not promote firearms ownership or any political position. The instruction is to be limited to accident prevention and personal safety awareness. It is to include guidance on safe firearms storage in homes and vehicles. The instruction is to provide guidance on what to do if a firearm is encountered, including not touching it and notifying an adult.
3. NOT INCLUDE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
(a) A LIVE FIREARM.
(b) AMMUNITION OR SIMULATED AMMUNITION.
(c) A DEMONSTRATION THAT INVOLVES HANDLING, OPERATING, LOADING, UNLOADING OR FIRING A FIREARM.
(d) INSTRUCTION THAT IS INTENDED TO TRAIN STUDENTS IN THE USE OF FIREARMS.
(e) A MORAL JUDGMENT REGARDING LAWFUL FIREARM POSSESSION.
(f) AN INQUIRY, SURVEY OR REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ABOUT WHETHER A STUDENT, STUDENT’S PARENT OR MEMBER OF THE STUDENT’S HOUSEHOLD OWNS, POSSESSES OR MAY POSSESS A FIREARM OR ABOUT THE FIREARMS STORAGE PRACTICES OF A STUDENT, STUDENT’S PARENT OR MEMBER OF THE STUDENT’S HOUSEHOLD.
The Arizona Citizens Defense League (AZCDL) supports the legislation.
An advocate for gun storage legislation made the argument that the legislature should pass a bill requiring safe storage of guns instead. The SB 1424 is considered a partisan bill, supported mostly by Republicans, according to Legiscan.
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Not if all it does is make kids afraid of guns. Which is what it sounds like from the list of things that cannot be included above.
I don’t think that is what it does.
It makes kids somewhat aware of guns as powerful instruments they need to be careful with.
Kids cannot be unaware of guns in our gun-filled toxic media.
My brother and I often say: Best for our opponents to get their training from the movies and TV!
“Not promote firearms ownership” … “objective”
Yeah that’s not… “objective” when your only message is “guns r bad, mmm-Kay?”
You can’t teach gun safety without guns and ammo and hands-on experience.
This sounds like a Nancy Reagan “Just Say No” campaign.
A safely stored gun is as useless as an unloaded gun. With the exception of the sight of an unloaded gun deterring an attacker, that is.
Take your kids to the range; take the mystery out of firearms and teach them safety. But don’t tell mom, unless she’s in on the training!
The anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment types are very much against it.
My wife had to learn to shoot during her PE class in public high school. Active duty military would go to the school to teach it. She had to learn to handle both a handgun and a rifle.
Which was a miserable failure.
Good
“Not if all it does is make kids afraid of guns.”
Allow this for a semester, take notes, following semesters change “guns” to “Democrat Party” and continue the lessons.
“Unbiased” that only tells people how to afraid and how to turn in your parents or friends’ parents — NOT how to safely operate or even ensure that a firearm is clear/safe.
In a ‘neutral’ framework students will learn how to be good Stazi.
(Conversely a real program would include all the operation, legal uses for firearms including recreation and self-defense, and illegal uses. Just read the existing laws and answer questions with actual settled cases.)
Let's see a K-12 Illegal Alien Invader Safety Education Bill.
Get Eddie Eagle in there STAT.
We had riflery requirements in six grade. You had to pass to get on a sports team.
We were scared to death because our QB transferred from Sante Fe (who was excellent) had parents who hated firearms and had never touched a rifle.
He somehow muddled through it during the summer.
How times have changed.
The “safe firearms storage in homes and vehicles” is a bother for me.
To me a safe storage of home defense weapons such as an AR15 and a shotgun is to have a round chambered with the safety on. The “safe” part is a warning tag on the weapon clearly stating it is locked and loaded with the safety on.
An alternative would be to have an empty chamber with a chamber flag and a full magazine inserted into the weapon.
In either case one can pick up the weapon and know it’s condition without fumbling around.
I really doubt it if any of my scenarios would be considered safe by Arizona standards.
The local VA says safe gun storage is to have an empty gun locked up separately from locked up ammo. That is just plain dumbass stupid.
I like the way you think.
It may be this bill is a step towards getting to your ideals.
Incrementalism has worked wonders so far.
Do young kids have access to your loaded guns?
No, kids do not have access to my guns.
When I was a kid I was not dumb enough to pick up one of my dad’s guns and start playing cops and robbers with it or go and do an actual liquor store robbery.
Safe gun storage starts with teaching kids that guns kill and to be dead is permanent. I was aware of this concept as a young boy as well as all the other kids I knew.
Back when we had our kids at home our guns were at the ready along with ammunition and they were not dumb enough to go shooting anyone dead.
It’s all about education and getting away from the libtardian scare tactics.
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