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Carol Manstrom says she lost her 18-year-old son when he grabbed his father’s unsecured pistol and shot himself. Paul Kemp lost his brother-in-law when a man opened fire with a stolen AR-15 assault-style rifle at a shopping mall. On Wednesday, Manstrom and Kemp helped deliver 2,000 signatures to Oregon’s elections office as part of an effort to get a measure on the 2020 ballot that would create the stiffest law in America requiring the safe storage of firearms. The initiative would require guns to be secured with a trigger or cable lock, or in a locked container. It also mandates...

S.108 Introduced by Senator Ankeney of Chittenden County Referred to Committee on Date: Subject: Crimes; weapons; negligent storage of a firearm Statement of purpose: This bill proposes to make it a crime for a person to negligently leave a firearm accessible to a child. AN ACT RELATING TO NEGLIGENT STORAGE OF A FIREARM It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont: Sec. 1. FINDINGS (a) American children are more at risk from firearms than the children of any other industrialized nation, and the rate of firearm deaths for children 0-14 years old is nearly 12...