Why is there opposition to gun locks?
It’s possible to either manufacture guns that have locks built into them or it’s possible to put a lock on a gun. These are things that would make it less likely that a child would get the gun and use it accidentally, less likely that a teenager would get the gun and use it to commit suicide or to injure someone else. The opposition basically, is a couple things. One is people say that will add to the cost of the gun. And if that’s going to add a couple of dollars to the cost of the gun, that’s considered to be an infringement of their constitutional rights. Some people also argue that if you put certain things, like this on guns, that it might become standard, and all of a sudden it’s going to be tougher to pull your gun in the middle of the night, from underneath the pillow and shoot the bad guy, because you’ll have to unlock the lock first. It’s something that we end up with opposition to common sense regulations and restrictions that we would require on any other piece of dangerous
