{"id":24573,"date":"2021-11-26T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=24573"},"modified":"2021-11-26T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T14:47:00","slug":"mandatory-storage-law-rarely-enforced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=24573","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory storage law rarely enforced"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Buffalo News reports that New York’s mandatory firearms storage law is rarely enforced<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“A September incident in which a 12-year-old boy allegedly brought a loaded pistol, a loaded magazine and loose rounds to Frontier Middle School<\/a> led to charges against the woman who owned the gun. Two weeks after the school incident, a Hamburg woman was charged with failing to safely store the gun. She is among the first in the state to be charged as the result of legislation passed in 2019<\/a> aimed at keeping guns away from children … The law requires owners of handguns, rifles and shotguns to safely store such weapons, either by keeping the weapons locked up or using a locking device on the firearm if there is a child under 16 who lives in the house or if there is a reasonable chance a child may visit the house. Before the law was passed in 2019, New York only required safe storage of weapons if there was a convicted felon or other person prohibited from owning a weapon in the residence. That was included in the New York SAFE ACT<\/a>, which passed in 2013 … The law is rarely used by prosecutors, according to records provided by the Erie County District Attorney’s Office<\/a>. It was applied four times under the older provisions regarding people prohibited from owning guns and for the first time since it was amended in the Hamburg case.<\/strong> …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The law should be abolished as it directly conflicts with Heller v. District of Columbia<\/em><\/a>. Hopefully with better Justices on SCOTUS<\/a> someone will bring a case challenging it.<\/p>\n