Require Firearms To Be Stored Unloaded

 

This bill is essential to limit accidental injury inflicted by children or individuals not permitted to use firearms

from obtaining and using a firearm in storage.

 

By preventing any stored firearm from being loaded, the risk for a child under the age of 18 to harm themselves or

others by accidental use of a gun is reduced.

 

[Firearms] shall be defined as [a weapon that shoots a projectile by the action of a propellant, including: frame or

receiver and silencer].

Appropriate storage of a firearm includes keeping it unloaded and in a locked safe or gun vault, inaccessible to

children under 18.

 

Funding for enforcing the bill would require budget allocation or tax funding.

 

Firearm owners who refuse to comply with storage safety requirements may be fined up to $1000 and/or face up to 300 days

in jail. The crime would be a Gross Misdemeanor.

 

Effective at the start of June 2026.