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April 07, 2021 11:34 AM UTC
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It's not the absolute liability bill we need, but it's a baby step in the right direction.
It says something that there was absolute partisan opposition to a law requiring
* awareness, * inaction, and (if prosecuted and convicted) a *$25 misdemeanor violation
By contrast …. Federal government mandates reporting of ANY loss of "explosive materials" within 24 hours, and violations can result in a $1,000 fine or not more than a year in prison.
A small step is what it is.
A good step would to require liability insurance for each and every weapon. The state requires insurance for cars, why not guns?
I thought there was some Republican opposing gun regulation because we ought to be treating guns like any other product, like cars.
I wonder what liability insurance would cover in a case like this.
It would cover the same things auto liability insurance covers: medical expenses, injury, death, property damage.
It would be great motivation for “responsible” gun owners to actually be responsible. Lock your weapon, by gun safe, smart lock, etc. carry insurance on it, train with it, keep the kiddies and loonies away from it.
Generally, intentional criminal acts are excluded from liability insurance coverage.
Losing a firearm is not an intentional criminal act- but it is neglectful carelessness. This modest bill merely mandates a report to law enforcement that a firearm is lost or stolen. If the report doesn’t get made, there are modest penalties.
Obviously, the intent of the law is to stop some intentional criminal acts from using lost/ stolen guns. How can anyone sane possibly object to it?
The intent of every law is to stop intentional criminal acts.
Any sane person would have reported the stolen gun voluntarily.
Sanity is losing ground among modern terrorists. You may have noticed.
These guys already have large gun collections, and they are preparing for civil war against people like me, my friends, and family. ( Liberals, people of color, LGBT folks, Democrats).
Anything that puts another layer of accountability on their deadly weapons, I’m in favor of.
More mundane criminals that might rob a store or menace or shoot someone in anger….same. Let’s track the guns like any controlled substance- like cough syrup or J i D’s bag of fertilizer. The more accountability, the more control, the better.
To J iD’s point, that enforcement might be uneven is not a reason to not have a law on the books. See: speeding laws, safety belts, etc.
The people you expect to control the accountability of weapons are the very same people that were unable to account for their own.
There is no comparison between a lost gun from somebody’s home, and somebody getting caught on C-470 in the Morrison cops’ speed trap.
While well intended, the bill would have more impact if it covered loss of weapons only by police officers, as in the young woman’s case. If Dudley Brown or Patrick Neville were to lose a gun, I think it’s highly unrealistic to expect someone like that to report the loss.
Perhaps the intent of the bill is to give "responsible" gun owners a bit of additional incentive to keep good track of, and exercise some diligent control over, the many components of their arsenals?
From my policy perspective, I can object to this bill because it criminalizes something that will hardly ever be enforced (allowing for selective prosecution, i.e., discrimination), will use resources, and likely will not actually do anything to impact the number of deaths, injuries or gun crimes.
I’ve lived in the same place for years and am an indifferent caretaker of my lawn. I know I had most of a bag of fertilizer — it may or may not have contained ammonium nitrate. If it did, and if someone has taken that bag out of my shed, I’ve violated federal law (see above). Am I going to go check and if it is gone, report the loss to the ATF on the theory of “better safe than criminal”? Nope.
I expect similar compliance with the gun law. Some people may report, especially if numerous guns were taken, they were valuable enough to be insured, etc. As we found a pistol while cleaning the house of my increasingly forgetful mother-in-law, we asked her if there were other guns. She said their might have been a second pistol at some point but she hadn’t seen it recently so we shouldn’t worry about it… I didn’t know if New Mexico had a mandatory reporting law, and wouldn’t have filed even if I did.