The headline isn’t really sensationalized if you read the bill that just hit the House of Representatives yesterday.
Democrat State Representative Linda Duba has offered House Bill 1174 which seeks to jail gun owners with unlocked firearms up to 1 year, and same for retailers who don’t provide notice of her proposed law to gun purchasers at the point of sale. Her proposed House Bill 1174 is to create a new crime under the unlawful use of weapons statute – a class one misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail if you do it more than once – that you’ve committed a crime if you do not store a weapon according to the guidelines she’s written in her law.
Linda Duba wants to Jail gun owners – HB 1174 by Pat Powers on Scribd
And even worse, if a gun retailer doesn’t provide a government notice to you about her law when you buy a gun – he can go to jail for up to a year the first time he does it. A class one misdemeanor is equal with the penalty for a DUI. Up to a year in jail if you don’t follow Linda’s law.
Yep. If you live alone, and have that unloaded pistol that your grandpa owned stored in a shoebox on your closet shelf that nobody but you knows about? Linda’s law would have you sent to the county jail for the offense. Up to a year in jail if you do it twice.
At what point are we supposed to let her install cameras in our home so she can monitor what we do, and whether they comply with how she thinks we should be conducting ourselves?
Whenever Democrats whine and argue that there needs to be “balance” in the legislature – this is the type of balance they mean.
As a gun owner, I’d like to see strict laws that are enforced for unattended or easily accessible guns. I’m not worried about guns stored in a home unless you have children, but the endless number of guns stolen from unlocked vehicles should be reason enough to ban possession for those idiots.
But where does this end? Guns are also stolen out of locked vehicles. Should guns have be inside a locked case inside a locked vehicle? But that locked vehicle can still be broken into and that locked gun case can still be stolen. Do we then just need to outlaw having a gun in a vehicle? But if a gun isnt in a vehicle, it is in a home. We better outlaw guns in homes because they could be stolen there, too.
Obviously my statement is a bit outlandish, and I truly do understand where you are coming from. As a gun owner, you should be responsible to keep your vehicle locked if you have a gun in there. But even if you leave that vehicle unlocked, and someone steals your gun, it is the person stealing the gun that is committing the crime, not the gun owner. If we make it a crime to leave a gun in an unlocked vehicle, we are then punishing the victim for a crime that someone else committed. This is the very foundation on how radical “gun control” advocates wants things to work.
1 lock minimum on all unattended weapons. Be that a vehicle or home. If in the home and other minors are present, at least a 1 lock minimum. Trigger lock, quick safe, gun vault, whatever you need. If you only have yourself and spouse, that 1 lock is your front door. This was how I was taught.
If stolen from an unlocked vehicle by a child, I’d agree with gun owner prosecution.
Theft is already illegal. We don’t need more laws. We need stricter punishment for those who break the law.
This is what the anti-gun peeps are always proposing under the banner of “common sense gun laws.” There is nothing sensible about this.
They say it all the time, they are in favor of “common sense” gun restrictions, and nobody ever seems to ask for specifics.
If I live out in the country on a ranch, I’m 15 minutes from the first chance of law enforcement showing up. If I need to protect my sheep, the pack isn’t waiting for me. I need that gun next to me unlocked for immediate access.
How do you protect your family from gun wheeling attackers if your gun is unloaded and locked in the safe? Answer, you do not. The window to deflate a threat is small. This proposal is the start of sequence that ends up in total state gun control.
It’s another in a long line of bills designed to garner media attention for Duba. She’s the best there is at it.
If “nobody” knows about my grandfather’s pistol how am I going to get in trouble?
so you are driving to or from your deer stand and you get pulled over for a moving violation and the officer asks you to step out of your car and the second you do, you have left your gun unattended and unsecured in an unlocked car etc, Ok that’s cool.
Bad legislation.
So…you can’t sleep with a loaded pistol under your pillow anymore?? Seems extreme.
Theft is already against the law, so that covers all adult and some juvenile offenders. Child endangerment is also against the law, so that protects the younger juveniles.
Have there been any tragedies involving unsecured guns without somebody being prosecuted?