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Committee hears gun safety pleas
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Committee hears gun safety pleas By DUREN CHEEKStaff WriterTeddy bear manufacturers face more regulation than companies that make firearms, state lawmakers were told yesterday as they launched a study on how to keep children safe from guns.Locking devices and loaded chamber indicators are among safety standards that could be required on firearms sold in Tennessee, Jaunita Veasy, executive director of the Black Children's Institute of Tennessee, told the legislature's ad hoc Committee on Children and Gun Safety.The idea of mandating such standards did not sit well with a majority of the committee members.If such standards are put into effect, they should be implemented voluntarily by firearm manufacturers, said Rep. Chris Newton, R-Cleveland.''We don't need to pass anything that says you have to have a safety lock on your firearm,'' Newton said.Rep. Henri Brooks, the committee chairwoman, said something must be done because guns are being used in ''guerrilla warfare'' in urban neighborhoods.Serving with Brooks, D-Memphis, on the committee are Reps. Frank Buck, D-Dowelltown; Kim McMillan, D-Clarksville; Mae Beavers, R-Mt. Juliet; and Newton.The committee study is being conducted at the request of Brooks, who was unsuccessful in earlier efforts to pass legislation that would have required all firearms sold in Tennessee to be equipped with so-called ''smart gun'' technology so they could be fired only by the person designated to do so.Besides Veasy, the committee heard from John Harris, executive director of the Tennessee Firearms Association, and Carole Moore-Slater, author of a children's book and a frequent speaker on the issue of guns and child safety.Veasy acknowledged that lawmakers cannot ''gun-proof'' children and teens.''Children are playful and active. Adolescents are curious and impulsive. Such healthy and normal traits when mixed with guns can cause death and serious injury,'' Veasy said.Moore-Slater, who has gone to a number of area schools to read her book to children, said children she talked to in urban and suburban neighborhoods knew exactly where the family handgun was stashed. http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/11/10209448.shtml?Element_ID=10209448
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