Trigger Locks - Good or bad?

[10-Ring]

I have a handfull of these things that I've never even opened. I guess in that sense it's a bad thing. I don't plan on having a handfull of handguns just sitting around w/ a lock though them. I have a safe for them now...much better security IMHO.
I've always felt safe w/ my son around my guns...it was his friends, my friend's kids & family member' kids I've had to worry about.

 

[12.7x99mm]

I use a safe for protecting and keeping safe the firearms that are not on my person

 

[Waitone]

The former governor of Maryland IIRC sponsored a law to require trigger locks. I think it was for exteral after-market types. Anyway the goober held a press conference so he could preen about his shiny new law. He was showing how easy it was to lock the trigger up and how easy it was to remove.

Weeelllll, in removing the lock he starts fumbling and can't get the key in the lock. It won't come off. It was a truly embarrasing moment in the history of "common sense gun control."

While I was watch the fiasco unfold I says to my self, "Self, what if. . . .Bang, bang, stab, stab, club, club, stanglwl, choke, burn, drown, rape, beat, gouge. All forms of violence could take place while the goober is putzing around with a lock and key."

Oh how sweet it would have been if someone at the conference started off.


We now return to our regular program schedule.

 

[Ryder]

You can get some statisitcal info here:

http://www.guntruths.com/Resource/facts_you_can_use.htm

It's not the most up to date but it certainly shows how many other violent crimes can be committed with something other than a firearm. Like I said, why no big push to lock up basball bats and kinves around the home? It is prejudicial to single out firearms for this kind of reaction. Are not almost 6000 deaths of any importance?

Quote:
Firearms vs. Other Weapons in 1998 (total numbers): Extrapolating these rates to the total number of murders in 1998 (as opposed to just the murders in which the type of weapon used was known), 10,977 of the total 16,914 murders apparently involved the use of firearms, and 5,937 involved other types of weapons.

Fact is the numbers have been in decline. But since but all accounts 99% of us aren't using locks I'd tend to want to attribute this to increased education (simple awareness of the hazard).

 

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BAD
Agree with HKmp5sd and Art...

Oh Art, hacksaw,...
Yuppie sheeple parents anti gun types,two of those cable type locks add two kids age 3 1/5 and 5, place lock on kitchen cabinets. Wait a bit, cogs in kids brains turning, well the younger girl went after a screwdriver took off cabinet handle and was in. The older wrestled with the diagnals, but after a bit and some grunting...walla. The eldest being a male , well a matter of principle, gotta use brute force or something.