[Jaysun]

Jackasses.

[Vaquero]

here in the peoples republic of NY, this has been mandated for years....you can buy a trigger lock or you can bring one so that you show that you have one when you leave the store and that's it. I own 1 trigger lock that I bring to gun stores with me....and when I get the gun home I throw the lock in the draw until the next trip to the gun store. I don't know if bringing a gun lock to the store is acceptable to buy a gun under the new law, but if the law does not mandate its use nor does it mandate built in gun locks, (like on my sons new Remington shotgun,we unlocked it the day he got it and he probably doesn't know where the key is at this point in time). I hate the add on to this bill, but it was not a pound of flesh by any stretch of the imagination. It was a save face add on for those cretins in the senate that needed to tell their anti-gun constituents that they passed an anti gun bill. playing both sides of the fence as is their want.

[Piquaboy]

Yeah! I'll put gun locks on my guns as soon as hell freezes over.

[Tax-chick]

Dang it! What part of "majority" do the Senators not understand? Bunch of blasted girly-men!

[Eastbound]

The gun-grabbers playing with themselves again and the voyeurs enjoying the show.

But not to worry. Regardless of the 150,000 gun laws, none of them are in force when you are required to defend yourself, as every Citizen in America has the right to life. Without the means to defend yourself at all times, you don't have the right to life.

Why place your trust in those who would limit that right? Only a programmed slave would believe that their lives are not worth saving.

Trigger guards, shmigger guards.

Oh, wait! It says right there in the Second Amendment, ' . . . the right to keep and bear USELESS arms shall not be infringed.' How stupid of me.

[Caipirabob]

The trigger lock thing doesn't bother me too much. I bought two handguns a while ago and the lock was built into the hammer of the mechanism. It was actually convenient. So you twist it off and throw out the key if you don't want to use it. If you do leave it out in an accessible area and don't anticipate needing it in a seconds notice, you can use the lock. It may help serve to meet compliance for certain laws in some states. Either way, our home defense weapons are not locked themselves, but locked away in a hand print safe for immediate access.

It's a petty giveaway. Trigger locks have been incorporated into the design of guns for years anyways. They are called "safeties".

[calex59]

This law is already in effect in most states. It was a throw-a-way amendment to make the dems think they had won something. I throw the locks into a box when I get home, it's no big deal. The bill as a whole is a huge win for us.

[Shooter 2.5]

If the GOA can't recognize a giant step forward and a small step back, they'll never get anywhere.

Let me know when the media blames the GOA for any pro-gun legislation and then I'll know the GOA is worth joining.

[blackie]

The pubbies have the hammer ~ they should act like it ~ Bump!

[El Laton Caliente]

The lock ammendment only appplied to handguns and most of them (around 90% of new handguns) are being sold with the anyway.

Go buy stock in Master Lock... ;^)

[billnaz]

This "trigger lock" thing is a load of kee-rap. Whatever happened to teaching kids to be safe around firearms?

I grew up around guns, and this was in the era before gun safes. Guns were either in an unlocked rack on the wall or standing in a corner of a closet. We kids knew not to touch the guns, or we would bring the wrath of the nearest adult down on us in a heartbeat. We also had graphic demonstrations of what guns could do when we observed the game that the adults brought home from hunting trips.

When we got old enough we were taken on hunting trips, and eventually we were allowed to shoot under the supervision of an adult. Any unsafe act with a gun brought a stern warning from an adult not to do that again.

I've put on firearms demonstrations in the past, and if there were any children in the audience I always made a special effort to teach safe handling of firearms to them. Hopefully I kept somebody from doing something stupid later on.

Bottom line: If kids were trained with firearms from an early age we wouldn't need trigger locks.

[adam_az]

How dare these yellow-bellied cretins tell the citizenry
what types of muskets they are allowed to own!

[Mogollon]

What??? It's mandatory to include a trigger-lock with the sale of a new hand-gun. It isn't mandatory for the owner to have to use the gun-lock. I just bought a new .45 ACP a couple of months ago and they included a trigger-lock which I don't use of course.

[R.W.Ratikal]

The idea that your gun should have a trigger lock is a reflection of the strength of the left on American culture.

Can't you just imagine it: Someone is seconds away from blowing you away in your living room and you say to him, "Wait while I run upstairs to get the key to unlock my trigger."

It is the liberal/left/socialists who should be locked away.

There can be no totalitarian rule in a country with an armed population. Or, as someone said, "A government that does not trust its citizens to be armed is a government not to be trusted."

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