D.B. Cooper
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So, I'm looking at HB 130, an upcoming bill requiring safe storage. There really isn't much on the web as to specifics. I get that it will likely require some sort of locking container, safe, or at a minimum, trigger locks of some sort. England has had something similar for decades.
What I'm most curious about is the impact it might have on guns intentionally displayed for aesthetic purposes. The flintlock (or lever gun for that matter) over the fire place, etc. For those of you who live in states that have safe storage laws already, what do those laws look like? How onerous are they? How are they enforced? How do they deal with the "flintlock over the fireplace" scenario?
I'm also curious as to how this bill will escape the 10th amendment. I get that Congress has authority to regulate trade between the states, and that such authority is where they get most of their power from, but there is no interstate trade involved in how a person stores his or her guns. I can't think of any other law on the books that would allow Congress to use the Elastic Clause (Necessary and Proper clause) that would grant them the power to add this regulation on to enforce another law. It seems to me that this would be an authority reserved to the states.
What I'm most curious about is the impact it might have on guns intentionally displayed for aesthetic purposes. The flintlock (or lever gun for that matter) over the fire place, etc. For those of you who live in states that have safe storage laws already, what do those laws look like? How onerous are they? How are they enforced? How do they deal with the "flintlock over the fireplace" scenario?
I'm also curious as to how this bill will escape the 10th amendment. I get that Congress has authority to regulate trade between the states, and that such authority is where they get most of their power from, but there is no interstate trade involved in how a person stores his or her guns. I can't think of any other law on the books that would allow Congress to use the Elastic Clause (Necessary and Proper clause) that would grant them the power to add this regulation on to enforce another law. It seems to me that this would be an authority reserved to the states.
