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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anything regarding storage is essentially unenforceable until after a tragedy has occurred.

One could require a receipt or proof of purchase for a safe or a lock when buying a gun.

It also implies that everyone's situation at home allows them 1) to purchase two safes and 2) to have room for two safes and 3) limits their ownership of either guns or ammo to the size of that safe.

That's intentional.

It also doesn't make much sense to have two safes if the person doing the shooting is the one that is buying the ammo and guns in the first place.

We need comprehensive laws grounded in addressing specific issues

I was specifically addressing teenagers access to their parents guns, specifically to prevent school shootings.

As for operating under a license, what would that do beyond the existing restrictions for procuring firearms? Do they expire and what would happen then?

Like a car license. You may not be checked all the time, but every once in a while and it's a crime to not have it if you're driving.

[–] brygphilomena 1 points 2 months ago

One could require a receipt or proof of purchase for a safe or a lock when buying a gun.

That's why in CA they make you buy a lock. But I don't really know anyone that uses the one they had to buy.

That's intentional.

This means only rich or well to do people can own guns?

I was specifically addressing teenagers access to their parents guns, specifically to prevent school shootings.

I'm okay with storage laws in homes that are primary residences to minors. But I don't believe that any storage law on its own prevents it. There is no way to ensure it's being following once the gun is taken home. It's why I am much more in favor of trying to influence gun culture to make improper storage stigmatizing.

Like a car license. You may not be checked all the time, but every once in a while and it's a crime to not have it if you're driving.

Those with concealed carry licenses do get checked as they are to tell an officer when they are carrying. I wouldn't be against these laws being federal. As for just ownership, do you just check everyone if they have a license or only when the police see the gun? Or when they go shooting on public BLM land?

The analogy for driving breaks down because you can buy a car without a license. You just can't drive it on public roads. Though you can on private roads without a license.