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In reply to the discussion: Sheriff's East L.A. station holding gun buyback today (funded by forfeiture $$$) [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)34. Safes are not an "undue burden under the Second Amendment." Undue burdens are...
the kinds of laws which call for gun dis-assembly, with parts kept in separate rooms, ammo in another, etc. As long as a citizen has ready access to a usable firearm for self-defense, then safety measures (esp. with regard children) can be quite workable. These can be storage in safes and lock boxes, perhaps trigger locks. But if these measures are required at ALL TIMES, then that is an undue burden because it thwarts a citizen's self-defense efforts. At present, my firearms are locked in a safe or in a lock box because I am not at home; when at home, one handgun is unlocked & loaded and ready for immediate use -- no undue burden.
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Sheriff's East L.A. station holding gun buyback today (funded by forfeiture $$$) [View all]
petronius
Jun 2013
OP
Safes are not an "undue burden under the Second Amendment." Undue burdens are...
Eleanors38
Jun 2013
#34
I don't get it. Though not widespread, There is a drip-drip reminder that human resources...
Eleanors38
Jun 2013
#48
What group has a commitment to making concealed carry universal? Did you just make that up?
AnotherMcIntosh
Jun 2013
#44
And how many people involved in that shootout were legal gun owners?
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2013
#70
That's why I'm less supportive of public funds being used, and why this article
petronius
Jun 2013
#22
The story is questionable. They are going to destroy all of them and not keep any as "drop guns"?
AnotherMcIntosh
Jun 2013
#6
I wonder how anonymous this really is. And when will there be a buy-back in Westwood, Santa Monica?
NYC_SKP
Jun 2013
#47
"A good negro is contaminated by the possession of a weapon.... Disarm the Negro."
Eleanors38
Jun 2013
#50
It has been that way since the Lydians invented money in about 700 BCE.
GreenStormCloud
Jun 2013
#80
true but, even more so today as we have really moved away from hunting, farming, gathering,
Tuesday Afternoon
Jun 2013
#81