NY Dem Pushes Bill Labeling Traditional Guns as ‘Child Operated Firearms’
New York State Senator José M. Serrano (D-29) is pushing legislation that will require retailers to label a traditional gun which lacks a disabling device as a “child operated firearm.”
The legislation–Senate Bill S3444–then bans the sale of any “child operated firearm.”
The summary of S3444 says:
Prohibits persons, firms or corporations engaged in the retail business of selling firearms from selling, delivering or transferring child operated firearms; defines “child operated firearm” to mean a pistol or revolver manufactured 1 year after the effective date of these provisions which does not contain a childproofing device or mechanism incorporated into the design of such pistol or revolver.
The test for whether a pistol or revolver is child-proofed is whether the gun has a “childproofing device or mechanism incorporated into [it]” which is sufficient to prevent “an average five-year-old” from operating the firearm.
The devices and mechanisms to make traditional guns acceptable are to include “the capacity to adjust the trigger resistance to at least a 10 pound pull, the capacity to alter the firing mechanism so that an average five-year-old’s hands are too small to operate the pistol or revolver, or the capacity to require a series of multiple motions in order to fire the pistol or revolver.”
S3444 does not stipulate how law-abiding citizens in life and death situations are supposed to compensate for the additional time needed go through “a series of multiple motions” before firing a gun in self-defense.
AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of “Bullets with AWR Hawkins,” a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at [email protected].
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