firearm regulations

[JJJ]

Hi everybody. When did federal law require both barrel warnings and internal locks? Did all manufacturers comply at the same time? I've heard that custom gun manufacturers are exempt. Is this true? I have a Colt SAA 45 about 2005 date of manufacture and a Les Baer Premier 11 about the same year-neither have barrel warnings or locks. Thank You.

 

[David E]

Don't know that any such federal law exists, other than a lock must be included in the box with the gun.

Barrel/frame warnings and internal locks are the result of lawsuits, real and imagined, not federal law.

 

[mortablunt]

There's a law about that? I think there may be something about safety devices included in some law about Saturday Night Specials. It could be an import thing, as I think that safeties add points towards sporting purposes.

 

[dogtown tom]

JJJ Hi everybody. When did federal law require both barrel warnings and internal locks? Did all manufacturers comply at the same time? I've heard that custom gun manufacturers are exempt. Is this true? I have a Colt SAA 45 about 2005 date of manufacture and a Les Baer Premier 11 about the same year-neither have barrel warnings or locks. Thank You.

There is no Federal law that requires barrel warnings or internal locks. While some state may have such a law it is usually just a decision by the manufacturer.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

Some state laws require things like magazine safeties, loaded chamber indicators, internal locks or heavy trigger pulls (not necessarily all at once). Warning labels are more of a "lawyer thing."

 

[TexasRifleman]

Those things were added by lawyers for the gun companies for the most part, not by legislation.