The New York legislature recently proposed the “Safe Weapon Storage Act,” otherwise known as Nicholas’ Law, having found that “the presence of unsecured, easily accessible, weapons in homes and other places increases the likelihood of death or injury from accidents and impulsive acts. Guns left unattended must be kept locked or stored securely to prevent access by children and others who should not have access to them. Gun owners and other lawful possessors are responsible for keeping their weapons from falling into the hands of children and other unauthorized individuals.”
Essentially, the law states that a person is guilty of failure to store a weapon safely when he leaves it out of his control without first securely locking it in an appropriate safe storage depository or rendering it incapable of being fired by the use of a gun-locking device appropriate to that weapon.
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