Reply #29: Child safety locks are damned dangerous

[Boomer 50]

1. they give a very false sense of security letting a person put his or her guard down when it absolutely dangerous to do so. It's akin to leaving your keys in the car and putting a steering wheel lock on and letting kids have access to the driver seat.

2. Most "trigger locks" are either designed to place a bar across the front of the trigger or they are misused by owners when they incorrectly install them on the gun with the locking bar in front of the trigger, most of the time, this means the gun can be fired with the lock in place.

As to the other points in your post, there has never been a criminal use by a private citizen of a .50 BMG firearm in the United States. Magazines (you amusingly refer to as clips) and limitations are useless. During the time when the 1994 AW ban was in place, I saw more LE only mags in the hands of private citizens than I care to count. Most of them got these magazines directly from law enforcement departments when they got new magazines. The worst offenders? NYPD and the DC Park Police.

I'd really like to know the background of the people that propose these stupid laws is. I would be surprised if any single one of them has ANY background or training in firearms technology or safety at all. These people ARE NOT QUALIFIED to put forth proposals like these as they have no experience or understanding of firearms or firearms technology.