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Trigger lock bill backfires
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jul 19, 2006 06:00pm |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| Media | Newspaper - Tennessean (Nashville) |
| News Date | Monday, July 17, 2006 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Faster than a speeding bullet, a gun-safety provision is shot into oblivion.
And needless to say, the National Rifle Association's prints are all over the weapon.
Last year, Congress passed a sweeping law sought by the NRA that was intended to shield the gun industry from litigation. Gun safety advocates in Congress knew they couldn't prevent the passage of the bill, but they managed to hold out for one concession: a provision that requires gun makers to provide childproof trigger locks on all handguns. The law, complete with the trigger-lock requirement, was signed last October and became effective in April.
Yet even that slight concession was too much for the National Rifle Association. Two weeks ago, the House, as is its wont, did the bidding of the NRA, voting 230-191 to repeal the trigger-lock provision.
The trigger-lock requirement has one simple purpose — to prevent handgun accidents, particularly among children. The New York Times has reported federal statistics indicating that the rate of firearm deaths for children age 14 and younger is 12 times higher in the United States than in the other 25 industrialized nations combined.
Thankfully, the Senate has yet to take up the trigger-lock repeal. It voted 70-30 last year to adopt the provision. It should have no trouble sticking to its guns and protecting children from handguns. |
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