This New Gun Storage Map Is Designed To Save Lives In Colorado

By Cam Edwards

Colorado Firearms Safety Coalition

Gun control advocates have really ruined the phrase, “gun safety”, haven’t they? If you’re like most gun owners, when you hear the words “gun safety”, you immediately think “uh oh, here comes some gun control”. So, when I saw that a group called the Colorado Firearm Safety Coalition had put out an interactive map of the state showing where gun owners can temporarily store firearms, my first thought was “that’s actually a surprisingly useful thing for a gun control group to do”.

I should have known better. As it turns out, the Colorado Firearm Safety Coalition is an actual gun safety group, rare as they may be these days. The group’s website says its comprised of:

• Gun shop owners

• Firearms instructors

• Members of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

• Researchers from the University of Colorado School of Medicine

• Researchers from the Colorado School of Public Health

• Researchers from the Veterans Administration’s Mental Illness Research Education Clinical, Centers of Excellence

The laser-like focus of the organization is suicide prevention, and they note that “out-of-home gun storage can be especially helpful to persons in crisis at risk for suicide”, but many people have no idea where they could actually …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms