03-24-2016, 12:27 PM
(03-24-2016, 12:12 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I will look up the bill.
It is taking me a while to find an exact copy of the proposed bill, but the legislative history show it was amended to remove a provision that made a "temporary leaving" of a loaded firearm an offense. So it looks like they were bending over backwards to make sure it was more about "gun storage" than just randomly leaving a gun unattended for a moment.
And I can agree with that. I thought I was a very attentive parent, but I honestly can not say that my kids never got a hold of something that could have been dangerous. Horrible tragedies happen sometimes that are just accidents.
Also debate about making the penalty greater if the gun was discharged by the child.
