The Biden administration announced this week a “new” rule mandating that federal firearm licensees (FFLs) provide safe gun storage options to their customers.
“Today’s announcements build on the department’s efforts to reduce the risk of firearms falling into the wrong hands,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in a press release. “Gun safety is a Department of Justice priority, and we will continue to take all appropriate steps to help reduce the number of people killed and injured by the misuse of firearms.”
Apparently issued as a response to the recent mass murder in Michigan, the new rule would require that FFLs certify that they have secure gun storage devices available to their customers for purchase. These gun storage devices can include safes, lockboxes, or “other devices,” but there must be devices available for each type of firearm being sold.
But Mark Oliva of the National Shooting Sports Foundation told GunsAmerica that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has been mandating this requirement for years.
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“This Final Rule is a much ado about nothing,” he said in an email. “This is something the firearm industry and firearm retailers have been doing for years. Federal firearm licensees have been certifying with the ATF that they provide secure gun storage devices when they renew their licenses. This has been standard practice.”
In fact, the gun industry has been voluntarily offering safe storage devices to all retail consumers. Every new firearm sold at retail contains a locking device, and the NSSF’s Project ChildSafe has partnered with law enforcement agencies in all 50 states to distribute locking devices to anyone who wants one.
Over the last 20 years, these initiatives have resulted in 100 million locking devices being distributed to gun owners.
“We are proud that the Department of Justice affirms the good work the firearm industry has been doing on a voluntary basis for years,” Oliva said. “While the Biden administration will point to this Final Rule and claim that they are tightening gun control, it is clear that this is already being done voluntarily.”
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Project ChildSafe has been recognized for its efficacy by the Government Accountability Office and the National Safety Council’s Green Cross Awards.
Biden’s rule comes on the heels of a mass murder in Oxford, Michigan, in which the killer used an unsecured firearm to kill four of his schoolmates. Later reports have revealed that the SIG Sauer SP 2022 was a gift from his parents, but the gun was stored in an unlocked drawer in his parent’s bedroom.
Authorities have not said whether the gun came with a locking device, but given the efforts of the gun industry to distribute such devices, it’s highly probable.
Why doesn’t O’Biden crawl back in his basement and shut his dumbass mouth? There are already so many gun locks and so many cable locks, and so many redundant and ridiculous laws out there it’s ridiculous. And most are where mine are, Around a gate or still in the box. If I need a gun I don’t need to have to find a key, open a lock, open a safe, get my gun, find the proper ammunition and load my firearm to respond to a threat I would already be dead maybe 3 times. I grew up with guns, my children grew up with guns and they are all loaded until proven otherwise. The biggest danger I face is a corrupt government and crooked politicians who can’t can’t find their ass with either hand.
these politicians are total assholes!! why don’t they stop letting the murderers,rapist robbers back on the streets? because they want total mayhem! what i do inside of my home is my fucking business,if i want to leave guns laying around unlocked,THAT”S MY BUSINESS,i have no kids living with me,just me and my daughter and she know gun safety! and as a side note,watch out for that asshole murphy,he’s going to make a run for the whitehouse either in 2024 or 2028,GOD HELP US GUN OWNER IF THAT ASSHOLE EVER GETS IN,there will be civil war,HE”S FUCKING INSANE,LOT AT HIS EYES THE NEXT TIME HE”S ON TV,he’s a full blown psychopath!!
Like when his dead kids wife hid her new lovers(the crackhead) gun in the garbage can
Where the video??!!? How about leave out ALL THE BLAH BLAH and show us what was REALLY SAID AND HOW HE SAID IT?! You literally took a screen shot of him talking about it BUT DIDNT PUT IT UP! Guess you wouldn’t of had a THING to say since the VIDEO OBVIOUSLY TOLD THE ENTIRE STORY IN ID BET LESS THAN THIRTY SECONDS! FYI… PRO’S GIVE ALLLLL info they have NOT what they CHOOSE to write! So I hope you get what I’m saying clearly here!
Since you know so much, why don’t you tell us what was said?
What are you trying to say? You are as stupid as Joe.
In other news , Biden is also requiring all newly sold vehicles sold to be equipped with emergency brakes….
Because … a safely stored firearm is a useless firearm.
Every gun person has at least a drawer full of such devices. Same political smoke and mirrors and “lokee here” as always.
What kind of retard doesn’t lock up their guns? Why should this even be necessary?
Yeah…that Waukesha puke with the long list of law violations just murdered many with a vehicle. Who needs a unsecure firearm to kill innocent people?
Ever see the movie, ‘Idiocracy’? The politicians we have now must have used it as a teaching aid. We are living it now.
Thumbs UP!
Republicans should attach increased penalties for criminals using firearms in the commission of crime riders to every gun control bill these idiots come up with. I mean if the goal is to reduce crime…
How bout this one – when the SS who surround him, lock their guns up and only retrieve them in an emergency, from a locked safe – then and only then will I lock my guns in a safe. No, just kidding – LETS GO BRANDON!
If we’re required to keep “dangerous weapons off the streets”, shouldn’t the same be done for “dangerous people” as well?
Or are we still not talking about the 800 pound gorilla in the room?
Why is it i have (had) a heck of a collection of slide/cylinder locks?? One came with every new gun anyways for the last 20 yrs! Freaking morons need to get a clue. Just remember any idiot in this country can drive and have children without permits even with a sub 50 iq. Go figure why accidents happen with children and guns!
This sounds like the ATF is setting up its next move, where the locking devices would have to remain on all guns in the dealer showrooms. A customer would not be able to check the action or evaluate the trigger, maybe not even get a good idea of how the gun feels in his hand, because the locking device has to stay on the firearm through the sale. Goodbye to gun shopping as we know it. Sounds crazy, but I know it’s in the antigunners’ playbook.
But wait, there’s more! The DOJ is also redefining “antique firearms” and it is uncertain at this point how broadly the rule will extend.if an antique firearm can be modified to accept a fied cartridge, it will no longer be exempt from the background check requirement. Unknown, but this may include cap and ball pistols for which conversion cylinders are available, as well as in-line muzzle loaders if they can be modified to take a cartridge. That would be a huge change/