The Colorado State House Judiciary Committee has approved a bill that prohibits leaving a firearm in a motor vehicle unless stored in a lock box or the vehicle’s trunk, according to a report at Colorado Politics, and as it turns out, gun thefts from parked cars and trucks is a significant national problem.
House Bill 1348 was approved by the Judiciary Committee on a 7-3 party-line vote, the report noted. Embarrassingly, a report in the Colorado Sun from January 2023 noted that two guns were stolen on the Capitol campus in Denver from a car belonging to then-incoming state Representative-elect Ron Weinberg (R-Loveland).
How big a problem is this? According to the Colorado Politics report, over a two-year period (2022-early 2024), “more than 1,000 guns were stolen from vehicles,” according to Denver District Attorney Beth McCann. During a Wednesday hearing, the committee heard from a representative from the National Shooting Sports Foundation who noted the $500 civil penalty included in HB 1348 might discourage people from reporting stolen firearms, which is already law in the Centennial State.
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While HB 1348 is definitely a gun control bill, it does point to what is a serious problem around the country and a potential public relations disaster for the firearms community. Ammoland News looked around the Internet for reports relating to gun thefts from cars and found the following reports dating back over the past year.
Back on Feb. 6, WCMH News in Columbus, Ohio, reported, “Hundreds of guns were stolen from vehicles in Columbus in 2023 and dozens were taken from vehicles in the first month of 2024.” The report quoted Commander Dave Hughes with the Columbus Division of Police, who said criminals break into parked vehicles in hopes of finding a gun. Last year, 770 guns were taken from vehicles in Columbus.
A month earlier, on Jan. 4, WKRN News in Nashville said police in that city had investigated more than 100 homicides last year and that “guns stolen from cars are a standard tool used in these types of crimes.”
In San Antonio, Texas, a Dec. 27 report on KSAT News revealed “more than 2,400 guns” were stolen from vehicles in the city in 2023. This report noted, “Statistics from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives show that from 2017-2021 there were 1,074,022 firearms reported stolen across the U.S. and almost 96% of them (1,026,538) were stolen in thefts from private citizens.”
A Dec. 12 report in the Cincinnati Enquirer quoted Police Chief Teresa Theetge explaining how, between Jan. 1 and early November 2023, “about 390 guns were stolen from vehicles.” It amounted to more than one gun a day and “about 60 percent of all guns stolen” in the city. By the time the Enquirer report was published, the newspaper said 646 guns had been stolen in 314 separate incidents in 2023. Theetge told the newspaper she had even installed a gun safe in her vehicle.
On May 17, 2023, KDVR News in Denver reported one incident in which 16 guns had been stolen out of a pickup truck parked in front of a hotel. The guns were reportedly “wrapped with graphics advertising ‘We Buy Guns,’” which was notably ironic. Between Jan. 1 and May 11 last year, the Denver police reported 261 firearm thefts from cars.
A report at MyNorthwest.com revealed a problem in Tacoma, Washington, last year where police were asking gun owners to reduce gun thefts by “practicing responsible gun ownership.”
“This year,” the May 2, 2023 story noted, “a gun has been stolen out of a vehicle in Tacoma every 57 hours, adding up to 51 guns stolen this year alone.”
Last month, WCAU News in Philadelphia—the local NBC affiliate—reported one arrest incident in which two stolen cars and four stolen guns were recovered, and six people were arrested by police in Montgomery County. Each of the guns was “fully loaded,” the report said.
A few days ago in Seattle, according to the Seattle Police Blotter, officers arrested a 48-year-old man “who tried to rob at least six people with a stolen gun and then led police on a car chase in broad daylight on Jan. 9.”
Such reports only serve to create the impression that gun owners are habitually careless, which leads to legislation like HB 1348 in Colorado.
But is there another side to the story? One argument would be that many businesses and so-called “sensitive areas” restrictions do not allow the lawful carry of legally owned firearms on their premises. It’s a valid claim in many circumstances, the consequences of creating “gun-free zones” where none should exist in an attempt to discourage concealed carry altogether. What the gun prohibitionists never care to acknowledge is that armed citizens have a right to carry legally, especially in the 29 states that have now adopted so-called “Constitutional Carry” laws. Louisiana’s statute takes effect on July 4.
One solution an increasing number of gun owners are utilizing is the vehicle gun safe, such as Chief Theetge in Cincinnati had done.
Companies such as Truck Vault and Console Vault produce sturdy vehicle safes, and Hornady also produces a lockbox that is portable and may be carried into a hotel room, for example, and also might double as a lockbox for airline travel.
About Dave Workman
Dave Workman is a senior editor at TheGunMag.com and Liberty Park Press, author of multiple books on the Right to Keep & Bear Arms, and formerly an NRA-certified firearms instructor.
Get rid of gun free zones then guns would not be left in vehicles.
That would sure knock a dent in it! A day or two ago, I was reading where several liberal LE “luminaries” in South Carolina, to include Sheriff Leon Lott of Columbia were whining about the passage of our Constitutional (really Permitless) Carry law. It was the usual “wild, wild west” and “blood in the streets” nonsense that never materializes. Today, there was a story in the news about some little hoodlums who stole a car with guns in it and caused a vehicular pursuit. One of them shot a police dog and I believe was shot, too. Both, reportedly will… Read more »
Ope, you are absolutely right! You’d think they would find a new line of bs to spew, but they don’t.
That’s never going to happen with liberals. Ever since the creation of their political correctness agenda back in the late ’80s early 90s they are still trying to figure out how to pick up a turd by the clean end.
In the past few years I’ve heard sheriffs in many states say they won’t enforce this law or that law if it’s passed. People tend to forget that those sheriffs, deputies, cops, etc.. have been enforcing every other arms law on the books. I have yet to hear any of them support real constitutional carry. They almost unanimously believe they should have a say in who can exercise their rights and how. If you really believe your local enforcer supports your rights then next time you see them ask them what they think about you carrying in your vehicle, or… Read more »
I concur, Stag. Some of the statements were quite disturbing. https://www.wistv.com/2024/03/12/potential-is-there-lot-things-happen-law-enforcement-weighs-new-constitutional-carry-law/ Though not mentioned in this article and appropriately so given the cast of clowns in it, the Sheriff in Kershaw County, Lee Boan, had the most respectable quote regarding this law that I saw. Paraphrasing him, he noted that at the end of the day, it didn’t matter what he or his deputies thought about the law, upholding The Constitution was the main thing. I wish I could find that article and quote him verbatim. Yes, his department probably does enforce gun laws. All gun laws are pretty much… Read more »
I love to see the look on their faces (both LEOs and fellow shoppers) when I stroll into the local grocery store wearing my 1911 openly…especially when I’m using a low slung tactical thigh rig. It’s almost as if they are just boiling inside – seeing a citizen carrying open. Some of them I have seen at local USPSA competition where I whip their rear ends. Drives them nuts (along with the fact they know I am in my mid 60s). When they recognize me, they get the funniest expressions on their faces. I spent over 30 years, US Army,… Read more »
I love it! Keep carrying, sir! Let’s make seeing guns in public just a normal, everyday thing that no one even thinks twice about.
This.
I want to hear, just once, from a LEO with a pair of balls – say that what we in America really need is some “Thug Free Zones”. Of course, that’s so “Racissssss”…lmao
My prayers for the dog.
Damn straight. Dogs are Gods gift to humans. Spell dog backwards..’nuff said!
@MM and BFB The best comments that I have read here in a long time.
doesn’ work in spanish, french, german, or swahili. Must not be true…..
Funny thing is, historical records tell us that during the period of the “wild, wild, west” more people were getting shot in New York City in spite of its “Sullivan Law”, in inter-gang violence than in the “wild wild west.” The difference then, as now, is how the press covered the events in question.
Remember “The Summer of the Shark?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_the_Shark
The truth about the wild west is that most deaths were due to the harsh conditions. Visit a pioneer graveyard and you can read the story (just by counting headstones) of harsh winters and famines.
Visit Boot hill in Tombstone and you’ll see the 2 major causes of death are poisoning, lead and arsenic.;)
Yeah! I remember the boy whose arm was bitten off and reattached at the hospital. I don’t remember a slew of other stories after that.
Yeah! I remember the boy whose arm was bitten off and reattached. I don’t remember a slew of other stories after that.
I sure hope that the dog survived.
It did. It and the little thug-in-training will both recover according to the article.
Oldman responded to me yesterday on the NICS thread.
Thank You, BFB! That is good to hear!
Ope, it has been about a week or two since I last saw a comment by him. I hope he is okay. I too had been wondering where he went.
Could just be a vacation…
I’m in FL and it was all over the news like DeSantis was inventing a scary, new thing. We were the 26th state and it’s not even true constitutional carry. The media never mentioned that. Hmm…
Well, except for my Shockwave 12ga..I keep that in a modified padded case (fast opening velcro in lieu of a zipper) under my back folding seat of my Dodge Ram (along with 30 rounds of double 00 buck and slugs) – you know, “just in case”….(I know, bad pun – but, I can’t help it).
How do you like the Shockwave? I’m contemplating buying a 20 gauge Shockwave or a Taurus Judge Home Defender. Not sure I want the recoil of a 12, I’m 70 now and I am noticing a loss of upper body strength.
But I also looked around at proper .410 loads for a home defense or truck gun talk about expensive! I saw some buckshot rounds over $7.50 each, Lordy!
Maybe I should just buy both? Surely .410 prices will fall…
I picked up a Remington V3 TAC-13 last year; it’s a semi-auto version of the Shockwave. I’d have bought a 20 gauge version if Remington made it. It does pack a wallup without having a shoulder to absorb the recoil. Gun Jesus (Ian on the Forgotten Weapons youtube channel) has an episode on how to shoot it without hurting yourself. https://www.forgottenweapons.com/how-to-shoot-the-shockwave-w-demonstrated-concepts/ What these bird’s head grips need are QD sockets on both sides near the heel.
Bob, I had a Shockwave in 12ga. Due to a bad wreck I was in a few years ago where my left shoulder was permanently disfigured and injured, I find I don’t work a pump shotgun as skillfully as I did before the wreck. I can work the Shockwave, just not with speed and precision that makes me comfortable. I decided to try the same gun in 20ga. As I read on another forum after purchasing it, due to lighter weight of the 20ga model, there really isn’t that much less perceived recoil with the 20ga, compared to the 12ga.… Read more »
Not a reloader – but my understanding is that shotgun rounds are easier to load than rifle or pistol. If you really want a .410, perhaps you should take up reloading. Same primer, less powder, less shot – likely less expensive to load than 12 or 20. At $7.50 a round you’ll pay off your press first time you use it! I mostly shoot 9mm, 223, and increasingly 22LR. Reloading these calibers is typically not cost effective – and I’m a poor enough shot that factor ammo quality/consistency is not a factor – I’m bad enough that mixing brands doesn’t… Read more »
Abso Fing lutely. They are creating their own problem as usual and are too dumb and blind to see it because they have no logic and no common sense.
As a generally law abiding citizen, there are certain places I know my gun is not legally allowed in my state, and I try to respect that. Hospitals are among those places. And, as I get older, I find I am spending more time in hospitals taking, picking up, and visiting friends. So, I have installed a pretty heavy-duty lockbox cable-locked to the seat frame of my pickup truck. My gun resides there until my hospital time is over. Would that it were not so, but it’s an inconvenience I must live with.
“The difference between “law abiding” vs “responsible” gun owner. Responsible gun owners stay armed for their families’ safety & security, regardless of the law. Law abiding gun owners endanger their families’ by disarming themselves to follow unconstitutional laws.” — Tony Simon “One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” –MLK Jr. Some laws are meant to be broken. Especially, unconstitutional ones that do nothing but disarm you. Laws in my State also say I should be disarmed in hospitals. Luckily, they don’t have metal… Read more »
Of course, you recognize that acts of a legislature or Congress that are unconstitutional are not laws.
Yes, but that won’t stop cops from harassing, assaulting, extorting, kidnapping, and even murdering you in order to enforce them.
There’s what we know to be true and right and then there’s the world we actually live in and in the world we live in unconstitutional “laws” are enforced every day. That’s why it’s up to every individual to decide for themselves what’s the bigger threat they’ll face when carrying. Government thugs or the civilian kind. Plan accordingly.
I won’t deny the truth of what you say. However, if I am discovered to be carrying in a hospital, I risk both the loss of my gun, and potentially, the loss of my freedom. Either loss puts me in a situation where I cannot defend either myself or my loved ones. Locking up my gun for the short time I am in a hospital is a calculated risk to be sure. But it is calculated.
How about 10 years in prison for possessing stolen guns? How about hanging for the third strike?
Captain Obvious says… “guns aren’t the problem” , crime and democrat DA and Judges are…
Same old shit, nothing to see here, move along..
Gun owners aren’t careless: their property is locked in their vehicle which is criminally broken into and then property is criminally stolen. While I use a lockbox when I don’t just carry, the gov cannot legally require it, nor charge people with a crime if they don’t. Nor can they claim it’s a crime to not report the stolen gun. You’re the victim ffs. The crime is the person breaking in and stealing! And the gov creates issues by illegally telling people they cannot carry in certain areas. No gun zones are unconstitutional, and the gov should be liable for… Read more »
Well said, Arizona!
I think the tyrants here just passed or tried to pass, (they write so many anti 2A laws it’s hard to keep track), a law making the victim of a gun theft a criminal if you don’t report the theft within 24 hours. Plus, this week our state attorney general tyrant Sideshow Bob ferguson won his first appeal of a law giving the right to sue gun manufacturers. Amazing! We have a host of oppressive laws that are being challenged but the suits move like snails. Hell we are even home to Alan Gottlieb and his group of activists who… Read more »
Oregon and kommiefornia has the same law. Don’t report it and you get in trouble but I think we have 48 hours.
Lol I love Sideshow Bob, and his cousin Freaky Fred from Courage.
People leave their guns in cars in order to enter a gun-free zone legally. The safest place for my gun is on my person, and that is probably true of most anybody who carries. The obvious solution is to get rid of gun-free zones, or require the proprietors of them to provide secure storage for patrons’ guns.
They’re unconstitutional infringements, period, but they also create shooting galleries. Biden is to blame, he sponsored the first, and the douche didn’t even include in the bill that the gov would defend those who couldn’t defend themselves, offering armed protection in gun free zones since they prevent people from defending themselves. It’s as if he wrote the bill to aid and abet criminals, robbers, rapists and murderers.
that is what the scumbags want , you are to blame for the criminals having the tools of their trade, not the criminal
He did so that way they could claim more often guns are bad we need to take them off the streets. It’s all part of the big plan which is to disarm the world. Then they have all the power.
Being the Godfather of a criminal organization for his entire public life, protecting criminals is his job.
AMEN!
In the trunk?
Pffft.
Ever watch those bait car videos?
Pop a back side window, unlock the car and promptly rip out the seats to see if they can get into the trunk..
And most of the time, it only adds SECONDS to the time that they smash, grab, and flee…
Unless a metal detector is involved, keep weapons concealed!
Vehicles make lousy gun safes. Locked boxes containing guns left in vehicles make even lousier gun safes. If it’s safety the gun-grabbers want, then they can start by doing away “Criminal Friendly Zones” while simultaneously start sending gun / vehicle thieves to prison for 5-to-20 yrs.
I love your stuff, Dave, but on this I feel compelled to point something out. Ignoring, for a moment, that what you correctly call a “serious national problem” largely results from the fact that concealed handgun permit-holders are prohibited from carrying in a wide array of public spaces, therefore leaving guns in cars, what we are seeing is, ironically, the left’s version of “victim blaming.” The same leftists who argue that a woman who is nearly nude in public cannot be blamed for inviting sexual assault are saying that a gun owner who rightfully keeps his or her gun in… Read more »
Paul, I don’t think I ignored that problem. Perhaps you just missed it. As I wrote near the end, “But is there another side to the story? One argument would be that many businesses and so-called “sensitive areas” restrictions do not allow the lawful carry of legally owned firearms on their premises. It’s a valid claim in many circumstances, the consequences of creating “gun-free zones” where none should exist in an attempt to discourage concealed carry altogether. What the gun prohibitionists never care to acknowledge is that armed citizens have a right to carry legally, especially in the 29 states… Read more »
Considering the sources, I’m sure all of these “stolen guns” numbers are perfectly accurate. None of these sources would ever exaggerate statistics to further their own desires.
Would they?
PS Nice grips!
Or, we could try something really out of the box. I know this sounds far fetched, but we could actually punish people for stealing firearms! Don’t discount it too fast, it might work. Instead of punishing those who are victims of crimes, in the remote past, our country actually punished the person who DID the crimes. I know, that’s pretty far out there, but it might just work. It used to work pretty well, from the old historical archives.
And in my own personal memory…
Colorado has become just like California, Oregon, and Washington in the fact it has been invaded by liberals from those states who left those states because they were fed up with the kind of stuff they brought with them!!!
You mean “invaded by Californians,” don’t you? Here in Washington where I live, we adopted a phrase more than 40 years ago: “Californicated.”
Thans for reading and sharing this AMMOLAND report!
Some of us were born there and had no choice until we were old enough to move. That’s what I did and then the Sierra Clubbers ruined the timber industry of which I was employed and I moved to kommiefornia for the places I could play music, my old friends, my mom and dad. When I was finally able to escape I did not have any democrat leanings and people where I live know it. I am making a few enemy’s now that I am getting signatures to put constitutional carry on the ballot but I don’t care. Not all… Read more »
We have a terrible CANCER running amok in the souls of our Nation. It is the source for all that ails us. Right now it seems like we, (Patriots and lovers of our Representative Republic), are playing a rigged game of Whack-A-Mole. Gun mole here, Free Speech mole there and Serf moles everywhere. This has caused us to take our eyes off of the CANCER that causes all the other problems. There’s an incubator of all things evil and antithesis to our established way of life and until we eviscerate the source of this madness we are doomed to continue… Read more »
I know what you mean. I am sure you have read about my niece that is going to be a teacher this year in Oregoneistan.
If you haven’t I will give you a few tidbits of what they don’t teach the kids now days. Just for a taste, Washington crossed the Delaware to kill the Indians and she knows who all the slave owners were. If she doesn’t know them “then that means they were good people”. Nuts.
True story: One evening, not all that long ago in Cincinnati OH, the car of the relatively new police chief was reported stolen from her driveway – along with her service weapon. (I guess it was a very quiet car engine.) Now, I asked myself just why she thought her life (or her firearm) was safer by leaving said firearm in the car, in the driveway, rather than bringing it into her own home. A few days later they reportedly recovered the car but her service weapon was reportedly not in it. I haven’t heard whether they have yet recovered… Read more »
As noted in the story, Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge installed a gun safe in her car.
Thanks for reading and sharing this AMMOLAND report.
Why would a cop need a gun safe? She can’t wear it everywhere she goes?
There you go, applying perfectly rational common sense to a situation where it’s not a factor. It’s okay, it happens to all of us right-thinking citizens, more often than not. Perhaps a leftward mindset prohibits common sense.(?)
While I do read many AMMOLAND articles, Dave, I actually saw this story on local TV news (which I only watch for about 10-15 minutes in weekday the mornings before going to work). Thanks for your reply.
Back when I was on the job still, in a neighborhood I used to patrol, I used to regularly see a plainclothes guy who worked for a state agency and drove a company car, as he arrived home from work in the evening. It was disheartening to watch him take off his sidearm and place it in the trunk before going in the house. Other than exchanging waves with him while passing through his neighborhood, I never stopped to converse with him. It wasn’t my business, but I always wondered what the reason for that illogical ritual of trunking his… Read more »
It is puzzling. I can tell you, from my time in the military and from friends and family in law enforcement, the vast majority of people who go into those professions aren’t gun guys. The vast majority of people I served with had never fired a gun before basic and most that had were not gun owners. They had fired an old .22 belonging to someone else or maybe been to the pistol range with a relative but there were VERY few who had ever been exposed to gun culture or even read the constitution before taking their oath. That… Read more »
I cannot say that you are wrong, Stag! In fact, I think you are mighty right.
Best post so far this year
Why shouldn’t I expect to leave my gun OR and bag of M&Ms in MY car locked or not and not expect them to be there when I get back. If it isn’t yours stay out unless invited in and keep your grubby paws to your self. We used to. Remember gun racks in the back window? What changed? I’ll tell you part of what changed. Pols. DAs, and correction adims, adopted a HUG-A-THUG mentality, and screw the Tax paying citizen. “oh the poor little darling was abused, he’s got emotional/mental health problems, anger issues,… now tax payer give us… Read more »
I wouldn’t expect M&M’s to survive left in a car. They may not melt in your hand but they certainly will melt inside your solar oven/car. When air is hitting 120F in the shade, temps will approach boiling water inside a car in the sun.
Do agree they should not be stolen.
True solutions to this “crisis” seems to be ignored and of course the agenda going in the opposite direction ad nauseam. For a gun owner the ATF is so ready to pounce on us with 10 years imprisonment and a 250,000 fine for rights that are guaranteed in the Bill of Rights from agents and agencies that are forbidden to infringe on these rights. Perpetrators caught stealing or in possession of a stolen firearm are usually back out on the street within hours or days, a slap on the wrist and another notation added to their lengthy criminal record. This… Read more »
Not taking my gun off because of some sign somewhere. If there’s a metal detector, I don’t go there. Two words: Suzanna Hupp
Yes! I think of her and her story often, especially when debating about entering a GFZ with no metal detectors.
Exactly!
Gee, Dave, It occurs to me that another solution to the problem is to really keep the firearm concealed and really keep one”s lip buttoned.
Oh, and I enjoyed your piece in the April “Guns” magazine entitled “The Waiting Period Acid Test”.
“Stolen Guns Big National Problem”
But….those who are steaIing guns are not a probIem. They get no jail time for it. lt is more IikeIy that the person whom the gun is stoIen from wiII be persecuted more than the thief.
I hae read that here in Washington State, more guns are stolen from vehicles parked in tavern/bar parking lots than everywher else combined. WHY? Because ya cain’t carry it inside, even if you are only playing cards or billiards and not drinking a drop. But all the thieves know when you see an NRA, Browing buckmark, Ruger, black and ugly, sticker on the bootlid, there HAS o be at least one gun inside. So they go in and seal them.
Absolutely why not punish the victims and protect the thugs. Make those regular folks do more and don’t do a damn thing about their precious thugs.
Kolorado
Why do they always say “fully loaded” like that’s really scary? Who would be walking around with a partially loaded gun? I would say that removing gun free zones would keep people from having to leave their guns in cars, or making it cheap and easy to buy a gun lock box with vouchers and tax incentives, but most of the reports I see weekly of people having their guns stolen are because they left it in their vehicle overnight and the car was simply not locked. I see it over and over again. People just leave a gun in… Read more »
My preferred technique if forced to enter disarmament zpnes in Texas is to field strip, pocketing slide and magazine(s). Lock the serialized piece which is the firearm in a hidden lockbox. Perfectly legal to carry parts virtually anywhere short of TSA “secure” areas. If someone does break in and steal my pistol part – they will not be able to immediately use it and I’m out a tiny bit less. Thus there may be circumstances in which a gun is stolen while not fully loaded. Also going to range or gun store, generally only the pistol IWB is loaded. That… Read more »
I always pack mine , but of I had to leave it in the vehicle my Blue heeler says I double dare you to try to enter and take it . All his brothers and sisters went to wounded warrior for therapy dogs but my boy was aggressive so he is not a therapy dog . Anybody that he don’t know trying to enter my vehicle will need serious medical attention .
Screw Colorado. Yes, do what you reasonably can to secure your guns; but leaving them in a locked car, assuming they are not readily visible, is not irresponsible. Yes, stolen guns is a bad thing. Is it really a problem? Meh. Is it a “big problem”? In light of the literally hundreds of millions of guns in the hands of the American citizenry, absolutely not. The sky is not falling Chicken Little.
As are Capitol Police Officers or at least some Byrds.
Such reports only serve to create the impression that gun owners are habitually careless,
Reading the comments in this post, you guys are all over the map on this issue and are ignoring the basic facts: (1) until laws change, gun-free zones are a reality; (2) leaving your guns in your car without adequate protection from theft is damned stupid; (3) long guns create a more difficult problem to overcome, but it can be done with a little research. Being retired and living on a fixed income, I take as many precautions as I can to ensure my guns are available when I need them. I sure as hell don’t leave them in the… Read more »
Sounds like a good idea!
Just another way to stick it to gun owners and punish victims.
It’s your firearm and you need to do everything you can do to keep it yours. I get pissed when I can see a gun in plain sight as I walk by a car. Irresponsible!
Let’s leave the job of arming our enemies to sleepy Joe. We can do better ourselves.
Actually, the responsibility to refrain from stealing property is on other people. In theory one should be able to leave their property in plain sight and all but the owner must leave that property alone.
While perpetrators are responsible for crimes they commit (excluding criminality due to missing AFT redefinitions) — there is no point in making it easy for them or even to provide temptation.
I hide and lock stuff because I just don’t want to deal with theft and don’t want to have to terminate a theft in progress as there’s going to be paperwork to explain how they got perforated.
Good luck with that! Everything changed when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit. Can’t trust anyone since then.
I don’t agree with this bill, but if you leave your firearm in your vehicle unsecured, then you are a fool.