The Brady Campaign is cheering Tuesday’s passage of storage legislation in New York that will require gun owners to lock up their firearms.
Brady noted that the legislation “will mandate that any person who owns or is the custodian of a firearm, shotgun, or rifle must securely store it.”
The text of the legislation gets more specific: “Secure Storage Requirements: Mandating that all firearms be secured with locked containers, trigger locks, or other safety devices when not under an owner’s immediate control.”
The text also says, “There are escalating penalties for failure to securely store firearms if there is a minor or person prohibited from owning a firearm in the home, if such a person actually accesses the firearm, and if harm results from that access.”
The legislation is titled “Francesco’s Law” after a bisexual boy who took his own life with a firearm on October 21, 2021.
Brady’s president, Kris Brown, said, “Securely stored firearms should be the norm, and with Francesco’s Law, we are one step closer to changing the culture surrounding firearm storage.”
Brown did not address what gun owners are supposed to do when someone breaks into their home and their self-defense firearms are locked via mandatory storage.
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