Tug of war over children's lives

[jimmy the one]

27. NSSF opposes Child Access Prev laws

sarisaka: Ultimate irony- "gun safety" groups are petitioning against a proven gun safety program. 37 million lock have been freely distributed over sixteen years, mostly through law enforcement.

NSSF: They {various gun control groups} also made false claims about the quality of the program’s cable-style gun locks.

NSSF’s Project ChildSafe program has been plagued with problems from the start. At one point, hundreds of thousands of the locks they distributed to law enforcement had to be recalled because they were so flimsy.
There has been no bigger opponent of sensible gun reform than {NSSF}National Shooting Sports Foundation. They have relentlessly lobbied against every single piece of legislation that would prevent children from obtaining unauthorized access to firearms, including Child Access Prevention laws and criminal penalties for adults whose weapons are obtained by minors. http://www.truebluepolitics.com/tag/gun-locks/

sep 2013: Since 1999, the NSSF has coordinated a safety initiative to distribute gun locks to law enforcement agencies, which in turn pass them on to gun owners, free of charge.. the implementation has been plagued by problems. Hundreds of thousands of the flimsy, fragile locks were recalled. Then, when a $50 million DoJ grant dried up and NSSF was obliged to finance the lock giveaway on its own, the program was scaled back significantly. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/09/the-gun-lobbying-group-you-dont-hear-about/279616/
Last year, NSSF lobbied in support of the Sportsman’s Act of 2012, which included a number of provisions regarding conservation of public lands, access and fees for hunters, and a clause that would have exempted ammunition from regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency. Ecologists objected, saying the lead bullets and chemicals in gunpowder are dangerous to certain habitats..the bill ultimately failed.

sarisaka: While CSGV and Newtown Action Alliance want the money to go to a program run by a 'better' group, they offer no suggestions. That is because there is no such program among the "gun safety" organizations.

Gun locks are a dime a dozen in places; I got 3 free ones from the VA hospital I go to, & I don't even own a gun.

sarisaka: It is especially ironic that the Newtown Action Alliance is against the program as had the rifle used at Sandy Hook been secured with a cable lock, the shooter would have been at least slowed, by having to locate the key, if not stopped entirely.

Utterly specious lame reasoning. As if adam lanza would'nt've been able to access his mother's ar15 bushmaster, had it been locked (dunno if it was or wasn't). I bet he knew where the key was. His mother was a 'law abiding gun owner' as well as a gunnut: Nancy Lanza as a "gun enthusiast who owned at least a dozen firearms". She often took her two sons to a local shooting range and had them learn to shoot. Peter Lanza said he does not believe Nancy Lanza feared her son Adam. She did not confide any fear of Adam to her sister or to her best friend; she slept with her bedroom door unlocked and she kept guns in the house where she lived with Adam.[

Specifically, NSSF:
•Opposes all legislation that would require parents to safely store firearms in the home in the manner described in their Project ChildSafe Safety Kit brochure.
•Opposes Child Access Prevention laws to hold adults criminally responsible when children gain unauthorized access to their firearms.
•Supports unprecedented legal immunity for the gun industry, which prevents parents (and others) from bringing lawsuits against the industry when they market and/or distribute their products in a negligent manner.
•Supports lowering the age at which Americans can purchase firearms and carry them in public.