Bound to Misfire: The dangers of gun locks

Tech Central Station ^ | 11/9/03 | John Lott

[rellimpank]

--as usual, Professor Lott is completely correct--

[South40]

[Falcon4.0]

"The gun came from the garage. I was just playing. I didn't mean to shoot daddy's gun."

There's the problem. Hollywood teachd kids, by proxy, is that the first thing you do when you find a gun is to point it at someone and pull the triger. BANG BANG YOUR DEAD!
Never, and I mean NEVER has there been on shred of "Safe Gun Handling" by example, in any movie I have ever seen.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Bang

[BJungNan]

Gun safes with a digital keypad offer a way to keep your gun at the ready with minimal access time.

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Use a code-only safe that opens with a digital code as opposed to a safe that can be opened with a key.

Key safes are only as secure as your set of keys and key access is much slower. A simple entering of 4 numbers on a keypad and the safe opens quickly.

Not as fast as having the gun loaded and at the ready at the bedside but the quickest access you can get to your loaded firearm and still have it locked up.

[at bay]

Why the reduction in crime in states that adopt mandatory concealed weapons permits never gets press play, I'll never know. Confronting criminals bent on hurting me has saved my life twice. At neither event would there have been time to take a gun lock off. The gun lock program makes no sense given the calm, dispassionate voice of the facts.

[Washingtonian]

The point was that despite "over 90 million adults owning a gun and almost 40 million children under 10" virtually none of the accidental gun deaths involve anything that could be stopped by gun locks. The book goes into this much more indepth, but the bottom line is that raising the costs of guns by $60 or so by requiring the lock also produces problems because feer poor people will own guns to protect themselves.

[Travis McGee]

In ten years, it'll be a felony NOT to have your guns unloaded, secured with a govt approved gun lock, and secured in a govt approved safe.

Naturally, there will need to be random inspections, to ensure compliance.

It's for the children.

[PoorMuttly]

Muttly guard his gun-locks with loaded gun.

[Sharpshot613]

The only government approved safe will be in a government approved building.

[Imal]

Another gun law looking for a reason to exist.

[PsyOp]

The Second Amendment - Commentaries

[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

Guns should not be locked, they should be loaded and carried so children will not find them and the world will be safer.

[GatekeeperBookman]

Difference between the Left & the Right pols-tax rates-that's about all.

W-like father like son. Hey did anybody really feel surprised at Daddy Bush giving Teddy the big wet one?

[2nd_Amendment_Defender]

In ten years, it'll be a felony NOT to have your guns unloaded, secured with a government approved gun lock, and secured in a government approved safe. Naturally, there will need to be random inspections, to ensure compliance.

From what I hear, Canadians already have to keep their guns in a place as you have described. I can see it happening in a state like California within ten years. Guys like the below pictured clown will help it happen.

[Badray]

Equally bad is that some people will use gun locks on loaded guns -- which they are not supposed to do, but why lock an unloaded gun, then -- and they do not all keep the gun from being fired.

Safety is in the hands of the person handling the gun. No device will ever change that. Safety training, safety training, and safety training are the best ways to achieve safe gun handling.

If you don't want your kids to drown, you teach them how to swim. Yet we hide guns and create an irresistable attraction for the kids to explore on their own.

[Travis McGee]

Sooner or later MM is going to meet "Longarm" in this debate.

[LibTeeth]

I'd be concerned about this if it weren't done by a nice Republican we all helped elect (sarcasm to taste and bake until doen).

[Travis McGee]

Sometimes I worry more about the Rinos than the 'Rats.