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The amendment only requires a lock be sold with it. This will be a boon for enterprising gun stores. Sell a trigger lock with every gun for $10 and offer the new gun owner a $5 trade in on his trigger lock towad the purchase of ammo. Your shop can sell the same lock for the rest of your life.

Until the CPSC decrees that any gun lock weighing less than 100lbs is "unsafe" because a crook could just take away the firearm, lock, and all.

BTW, I'd guess that probably half of all the gun locks out there could be considered "unsafe" by an unbiased observer; so it's not a stretch at all to think the government might decide to declare all but the most expensive ones "unsafe".

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One thing I'm not clear on: other than retail firearm stores, in what situation is a trigger lock actually a worthwhile and meaningful means of securing a firearm? To me, it seems that in any situation where one is adequate, other security would render it unnecessary; in any case where one is necessary, it would be inadequate.

Something like a strong cable lock I can see as having some value, insofar as a firearm can be cabled to something. But a trigger lock that does nothing to prevent a firearm from being taken, lock and all, to someplace where the thief can work on it at leisure, seems downright useless.

Can anyone explain any situation where a trigger lock actually does some good?