FREE GUN LOCKS AVAILABLE (Shelbyville, TN)

The Shelbyville Time-Gazette ^ | 27 February 2004 | DEA DEMONBREN

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Gun safety is a hot issue affecting many families with children. To help set parents' minds at ease, the Shelbyville and Wartrace Police departments and Bedford County Sheriff's Office are giving away gun locks to local residents. "Project Child Safe" is a program developed by the National Shooting Sports Foundation that will distribute millions of firearms safety kits throughout the country over the next year. The program is funded by a U.S. Department of Justice grant, with additional funding provided by the firearms industry.

Several thousand gun locks were donated to Bedford County and distributed among the three agencies and will be given away at no charge on a first come, first serve basis. The kits include a gun lock, instructions and safety tips and are designed to fit most types of handguns, shotguns and rifles. The goal of the locks is to prevent a child or any other unauthorized person from accessing a firearm.

Wartrace Police Chief Benjamin Burris, Shelbyville Police Chief Austin Swing and Sheriff Clay Parker encourage residents to pick up a child safety kit to securely store firearms. By partnering with Child Safe, the agencies are participating in a growing national effort to promote firearm safety to all gun owners. Shelbyville Police Sgt. Tony Collins had a personal experience with a family accident involving a gun. He stressed that "anybody with children needs these locks. If it will save one child from being killed or hurt, it's worth the cost."

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Shelbyville, TN is the very essence of what liberal Democrats envision for the United States. Study it well. And all if it is done with YOUR money. Wonder if they could come up with a grant offer on controlling illegal immigration, drug trafficking, crime, etc.?

[jedi]

How much information do you think they'll want before they give you a lock?

[GovernmentShrinker]

Seems to me it's time for 2A groups to have some sport with these free gun lock programs. Can't we think of some fun, visible thing to do with them? Like everybody go pick up your free gun lock, and all gather at the public park and make them into a chain and chain an effigy of a once-free citizen to a fence? Then everybody can watch how long it takes police to get the effigy off the fence, with all those confounded gun locks holding it on. And of course, we'd all have our sidearms with us for the event . . .

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

ROFL. Good idea. That particular office should be swamped by Tennessee residents requesting gun locks. Organize something.

[Chewbacca]

I think an industrious high school student should go to the station and request a couple hundred locks, then sell them at the high school for 50-cents each during lunch time as a senior class fund raiser.

[reed_inthe_wind]

Here is a way to lower taxes and encourage manufacturing: offer a tax credit for homeowners (and homebuilders) who purchase and install qualified gun safes. What would be better than to have every home in America equipped with a gun safe.

[Atlas Sneezed]

FREE GUN LOCKS FOR FREEPERS!

I have a bunch I don't use, and anyone who needs a cable-type-lock can freepmail me with their address and I will send you one.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Bang

[Redbob]

When I went to buy a handgun there, I had to go see the police chief.

He said, by way of a background check (and I'm not making this up): "Boy, you ever been inta anythin'?"

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My recommendation is to go down to the sheriff's office, and the police station, and get just as many of those gun locks as you can.
Then cut 'em up, and mail them back the pieces.

Think of it this way: you'll be keeping someone from that false sense of security induced by a lock, instead of actually teaching firearms safety in the home.

[Redbob]

BTW, that was NOT Austin Swing that said that!

He's definitely one of the good guys; I used to work with his wife out at Calsonic, and met him several times at the Blue Ribbon Circle or the Arena.

[.38sw]

I have a bunch I don't use, and was forced to buy, and I think I'll send them to Barbara Boxer. She can use them for paperweights.

[.38sw]

Several cities in California have been offering free gun locks, including the small city I live in. I should have gone down to get one to see if the locks they're giving away are approved by the Cal. DoJ (as required by law - you must purchase an approved gun lock with every firearm puchase, or sign an affadavit that you own an approved safe). On another forum (Calguns.net, I think it was) there was a thread about the gun locks. At least a couple of the posters said the locks that were being given away weren't the approved type. That'd almost be funny...

...if it weren't so pathetic.

[Joe Brower]

About a month ago a buddy and I went to an outdoor range about 45 minutes south of my locale, and I took a box of a half-dozen trigger locks with me for targets. We set them out at the 200 yard line and had great fun zipping them into oblivion with his Remington 700 using .223 Black Hill HPs. The rifle is one of those "police tactical" jobs with a 20x scope, and set as it was in a big "barrel bag" filled with 30lbs. of rice, the whole setup was virtually immobile, and you could watch the locks dissapear right through the scope. Mucho fun!

[El Laton Caliente]

What'sa trigger lock ;^)

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

BTW, that was NOT Austin Swing that said that!

Swing is a well-educated individual, FBI trained as well. However, he IS a politician.

[TERMINATTOR]

You misspelled SHEEPLEville!

Molon Labe!