Posted July 11, 2019 2:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

A gun-control group pushed the city of Lincoln, Nebraska to take a look at safe storage laws. The city council threw together a panel to look at the option and to make recommendations to counter what was presented as a major issue, namely kids getting guns. In the gun control advocates minds, the only solution was a requirement to lock up the guns.

The panel’s recommendations have come in and they failed to make any such recommendation.

A gun control organization that pushed for a mandatory storage law in Lincoln is still hopeful even after a task force studying the issue stopped short of recommending it.

“We’re going to keep pushing for that (ordinance),” said Melody Vaccaro, executive director of Nebraskans Against Gun Violence.

Four members of the Lincoln City Council interviewed Wednesday expressed little desire to introduce such a proposal to require firearm security in the home.

No one on the task force argued against the benefits of securing firearms, but there was concern about how a mandate might be enforced.

Now, it’s good that the panel didn’t recommend a safe storage law. Contrary to what gun control activists may think, they actually inhibit having a firearm for self-defense purposes. While I …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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