If you own a gun for home defense, gun locks are useless. The gun needs to be loaded and needs to be accessible via quick release mechanism that is usable in high stress situations. Ideally a fingerprint lock, but at the very least a button combination. Those aren’t cheap.
The one or two times a year I have a friend over with their kids, then I DO secure my firearms. I believe in more stringent gun control laws, and that gun ownership comes with a higher level of responsibility (and training, ideally), but securing a firearm can be as simple as hiding it out of reach of a child and separating it from the ammunition. Any law that requires people to spend money or significantly reduce their ability to defend themselves in order to comply with it deserves additional scrutiny.
If your concern is personal safety, you are better served keeping your gun unloaded and locked away. Statistically speaking, you are way more likely to use it to shoot yourself (accidently or otherwise) than you are to need it to defend yourself from a home invader.
If you own a gun for home defense, gun locks are useless. The gun needs to be loaded and needs to be accessible via quick release mechanism that is usable in high stress situations. Ideally a fingerprint lock, but at the very least a button combination. Those aren’t cheap.
The one or two times a year I have a friend over with their kids, then I DO secure my firearms. I believe in more stringent gun control laws, and that gun ownership comes with a higher level of responsibility (and training, ideally), but securing a firearm can be as simple as hiding it out of reach of a child and separating it from the ammunition. Any law that requires people to spend money or significantly reduce their ability to defend themselves in order to comply with it deserves additional scrutiny.
And the bill includes a carve-out for that, if you’re close enough to readily retrieve it, it doesn’t need to be locked.
If your concern is personal safety, you are better served keeping your gun unloaded and locked away. Statistically speaking, you are way more likely to use it to shoot yourself (accidently or otherwise) than you are to need it to defend yourself from a home invader.