I’ve never read of any problems with no trigger guard guns in the USA. It’s very common with late 1800s Derringer and pepperbox pistols. Those are freely traded and sold with no registration at all. I don’t see why it’d be illegal to make new ones.
Personally I think it’s a fucking moronic type of gun, but I don’t think there’s any legal issue with them.
What if the guy across the table called you a yella-bellied skink while playing poker on a flat bottomed paddleboat?
/sarc
Yeah. Probably thinking of a state law about gun modifications. I live in MA.
While I know expecting logical analysis out of the sort of folks who would leave a handgun where a 6 year old can get a hold of it is a fools errand, I have to think that firearm would be less than useless for home defense. Hell, it could not be accurate more than 2-3 feet, at a stretch. Launching projectiles randomly into your home seems like a bad idea. So many bad ideas in this story.
The whole point of a Derringer revolver is to murder someone up close by surprise.
The police didn’t shoot him, they confiscated the weapon and escorted him home…so, clearly he was white.
I’m willing to bet this happens more than we know-- a kid brought his dad’s loaded gun to school for show-n-tell when I was in grade school in the late 70’s in Connecticut, our bus driver saw him showing it around and stopped the bus to confiscate it.
Of course, if the gun owner had been properly using those condoms in the first place, the kids wouldn’t be around to find the gun. Or the condoms.
I had a mortar shell when I was a kid. I hadn’t thought about that in ages. I wonder what happened to it?
It really is something when the real news is that a kid brought a loaded gun into a school, and didn’t shoot anyone. SMDH.
Because the chances of having to defend your home from a prowler are so much greater than your kid finding the gun and causing mayhem. Their minds are guacamole. Too much irresponsible bullshit with guns are caused by people who let their imaginations run away from them. As a gun owner myself I have no sympathy for people who think like this.
If I am in such mortal danger that I need a gun ready and unsecured within easy reach, my children should be in foster care or with someone else for their own safety.
Let’s just pretend that I listed the last 10 reported incidents of people shooting their family members, mistaking them for home invaders, so that I don’t have to pretend I’m not sobbing uncontrollably.
Thanks.
Came here for the ‘and also the guns’ (with optional badoom-tish gif). This’ll do.
“Poor trigger discipline” doesn’t just apply to guns.
Nah. I’ve always considered “keep out of reach of children” as good general advice for life.
In my school, in the late 80’s, kids brought guns to school, and “showed and telled” them.
I can’t imagine the shitshow that would follow if someone busted out their deer rifle, showed how to disassemble it, then reassemble and demonstrate loading it in a classroom today.
Nobody was even uncomfortable that I remember. It wasn’t a “thing”.
a six-year-old elementary school student carried a loaded revolver to class. According to police, the student had “no malicious intent”
No shit. Did the police figure that out by themselves?
Bringing guns to Boy Scout meetings was more common in my neck of the woods back then. But then again kids were taught how to shoot in our troop at age 11-12. (Hunting was not too common)
