Could A Tax Credit For Gun Safes Minimize Illegal Guns?

By Tom Knighton

None of us like the idea of criminals having guns. This is especially true since so many of those guns are obtained through illegal means, often theft from a law-abiding gun owner. It could easily be one of us, and we all know it.

Yet there’s not much legislation can do to prevent that either. After all, there are already plenty of laws against stealing, yet people continue to do it. What else can be done?

Some locales have decided to mandate all guns be locked up, at least in part to discourage their theft. Yet that often creates a bit of an unfunded mandate. While new guys may come with locks, used firearms often don’t which puts the onus on people to also get locks for their guns. Further, a locked gun isn’t much of a deterrent since a criminal could easily figure that he can cut the lock at his leisure at a later time.

No, the best security for a firearm is a gun safe. They’re large, hard to sneak out, and a lot harder to get into.

Over at The Truth About Guns, the question of the day yesterday touched a bit on this <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2017/11/daniel-zimmerman/would-more-gun-safes-lead-to-lower-gun-crime/" target="_blank" …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms