House overturns gun locks
One of the compromise bills to the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms act was mandating that locks be sold with all handguns. The house has voted to get rid of that:
The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to overturn a recently enacted law requiring safety trigger locks on all hand guns sold in the United States.
The Republican-controlled House handed a victory to opponents of gun control by a vote of 230-191.
Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, a Colorado Republican, argued that the added cost of the trigger locks is passed on to gun owners and that they “do not stop accidental shootings.
She’s correct. Smart parenting and the four rules stop them though.
June 30th, 2006 at 8:36 am
Let’s hope this idiotic requirement makes the go aways for good.
The other day we sold a WWI Colt 1911.
What would the GI who carried it through the mud of the Argonne forest thought about my scramble to find a lock to go along with the museum piece?