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Gun locks being given away across Minnesota
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Gun locks being given away across Minnesota
Conrad deFiebre
Star Tribune
Published Aug 6, 2002 SAFE06
An estimated 30,000 cable-style gun locks, along with information about gun safety, will be given away free to the public at locations around Minnesota this month, thanks to a $5 million federal grant to a firearms industry group.
State officials hailed the program Monday as an important effort to stem the toll of children injured in gun accidents -- 1,800 of them under age 14 nationwide in 2000.
"Simply hiding a gun is not safe storage," said Col. Anne Beers, chief of the State Patrol. "Children are curious, and they will probably find it."
The free gun locks, which resemble miniature bicycle cable locks, are designed to thread through a gun's ammunition chamber, making it impossible to load. The program, called Project HomeSafe, plans to distribute 3 million of them nationwide.
There is no formal limit on the number of free locks, said to retail for at least $8 apiece, an individual can take, said Dee Dee Dockins of the sponsoring National Shooting Sports Foundation. "But if you said you needed 10 locks, we'd talk to you about a gun safe," she added.
Firearms owners should not bring their guns to the giveaways, Dockins said. State troopers will be at the sites, and Lt. Gov. Mae Schunk plans to attend the distributions Aug. 13 in Duluth, Aug. 20 in Alexandria and Aug. 30 in Rochester.
Here is the full schedule, with each distribution conducted from noon to 6 p.m.:
Today: Kmart, 1450 University Av. W., St. Paul.
Wednesday and Thursday: Wal-Mart, 8450 University Av. NE., Fridley.
Friday: Wal-Mart, 380 33rd Av. S., St. Cloud.
Saturday: Wal-Mart, 1800 1st Av. NE., Little Falls.
Sunday: Kmart, 1200 W. Hwy. 210, Brainerd.
Monday: Wal-Mart, 1400 Pokegama Av., Grand Rapids.
Aug. 13: Duluth, location to be announced.
Aug. 14: True Value Home Center, 1504 S. 4th St., Virginia.
Aug. 15: Kmart, 1606 E. Hwy. 11, International Falls.
Aug. 16: Wal-Mart, 2025 NW. Paul Bunyan Dr., Bemidji.
Aug. 17: Thief River Falls, location to be announced.
Aug. 18: Moorhead, location to be announced.
Aug. 19: Fergus Falls, location to be announced.
Aug. 20: Wal-Mart, 515 50th Av. W., Alexandria.
Aug. 21: Montevideo, location to be announced.
Aug. 22: Wal-Mart, 1101 E. Main St., Marshall.
Aug. 23: Wal-Mart, 1055 Ryan Rd., Worthington.
Aug. 24: Little Crow Shooting Sports, 18482 B, 202 Circle St., Hutchinson.
Aug. 25: Wal-Mart, 1300 S. Hwy. 15, Hutchinson.
Aug. 26: Wal-Mart, 1881 Madison Av., Mankato.
Aug. 27: Owatonna, location to be announced.
Aug. 28: Carlson Sports, 313 W. 3rd St., Red Wing.
Aug. 29 and 30: Rochester, location to be announced.
Aug. 31: Winona, location to be announced.
-- Conrad deFiebre is at cdefiebre@startribune.com.
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Conrad deFiebre
Star Tribune
Published Aug 6, 2002 SAFE06
An estimated 30,000 cable-style gun locks, along with information about gun safety, will be given away free to the public at locations around Minnesota this month, thanks to a $5 million federal grant to a firearms industry group.
State officials hailed the program Monday as an important effort to stem the toll of children injured in gun accidents -- 1,800 of them under age 14 nationwide in 2000.
"Simply hiding a gun is not safe storage," said Col. Anne Beers, chief of the State Patrol. "Children are curious, and they will probably find it."
The free gun locks, which resemble miniature bicycle cable locks, are designed to thread through a gun's ammunition chamber, making it impossible to load. The program, called Project HomeSafe, plans to distribute 3 million of them nationwide.
There is no formal limit on the number of free locks, said to retail for at least $8 apiece, an individual can take, said Dee Dee Dockins of the sponsoring National Shooting Sports Foundation. "But if you said you needed 10 locks, we'd talk to you about a gun safe," she added.
Firearms owners should not bring their guns to the giveaways, Dockins said. State troopers will be at the sites, and Lt. Gov. Mae Schunk plans to attend the distributions Aug. 13 in Duluth, Aug. 20 in Alexandria and Aug. 30 in Rochester.
Here is the full schedule, with each distribution conducted from noon to 6 p.m.:
Today: Kmart, 1450 University Av. W., St. Paul.
Wednesday and Thursday: Wal-Mart, 8450 University Av. NE., Fridley.
Friday: Wal-Mart, 380 33rd Av. S., St. Cloud.
Saturday: Wal-Mart, 1800 1st Av. NE., Little Falls.
Sunday: Kmart, 1200 W. Hwy. 210, Brainerd.
Monday: Wal-Mart, 1400 Pokegama Av., Grand Rapids.
Aug. 13: Duluth, location to be announced.
Aug. 14: True Value Home Center, 1504 S. 4th St., Virginia.
Aug. 15: Kmart, 1606 E. Hwy. 11, International Falls.
Aug. 16: Wal-Mart, 2025 NW. Paul Bunyan Dr., Bemidji.
Aug. 17: Thief River Falls, location to be announced.
Aug. 18: Moorhead, location to be announced.
Aug. 19: Fergus Falls, location to be announced.
Aug. 20: Wal-Mart, 515 50th Av. W., Alexandria.
Aug. 21: Montevideo, location to be announced.
Aug. 22: Wal-Mart, 1101 E. Main St., Marshall.
Aug. 23: Wal-Mart, 1055 Ryan Rd., Worthington.
Aug. 24: Little Crow Shooting Sports, 18482 B, 202 Circle St., Hutchinson.
Aug. 25: Wal-Mart, 1300 S. Hwy. 15, Hutchinson.
Aug. 26: Wal-Mart, 1881 Madison Av., Mankato.
Aug. 27: Owatonna, location to be announced.
Aug. 28: Carlson Sports, 313 W. 3rd St., Red Wing.
Aug. 29 and 30: Rochester, location to be announced.
Aug. 31: Winona, location to be announced.
-- Conrad deFiebre is at cdefiebre@startribune.com.
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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Project HomeSafe distributes home gun locks
SALEM - Officials have begun handing out free gun locks in Salem.
The plan is to offer the locks to parents who are concerned about unlocked guns in their homes.
Project HomeSafe is a nationwide program of the National Shooting Sports Foundation and state and community partners. It has a truck on a national tour, and plans to distribute up to 50,000 gun locks around the state.
The locks are similar to a bicycle lock. A cable is inserted through a revolver's cylinder or the loading port of a semi-automatic gun, shotgun or rifle, rendering the guns inoperable without a key.
Law enforcement officials hope greater use of the locks will protect children from accidents, and keep guns away from felons who burglarize homes and break into cars.
www.projecthomesafe.org
(Copyright 2002 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Gunlock giveaway program on target
Project HomeSafe hits area Wal-Marts.
Tuesday, August 06, 2002
By DANIEL WALSH
The Express-Times
A gun safety group gave away more than 100 gunlocks Monday to Wal-Mart customers and still has more to hand to out.
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Project HomeSafe set up shop outside Wal-Marts in Bethlehem Township and Lower Nazareth Township to hand out cable-style gunlocks to anyone who wanted them. The program began in September after its organizers, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, obtained a $5 million U.S. Department of Justice grant.
"This year alone, we're giving out 3 million locks," said Lori O'Connell, a spokeswoman for Project HomeSafe.
The cable-style locks provided by Project HomeSafe go a bit further than typical trigger locks.
"As opposed to a trigger lock, you have to unload the whole gun to get it off," said Ryan Williams as he handed out locks to Wal-Mart patrons in Bethlehem Township. "(With) a trigger lock, you can still have a round in the chamber."
Project HomeSafe has been handing out the locks throughout the nation, setting up shop in major population centers. Currently, five crews are handing out locks in different areas of the country. Williams has hit Harrisburg, Lancaster, York, Pittsburgh, Scranton, and several other locations during the last month. Today, he'll be handing out more locks at Wal-Mart on MacArthur Road in Whitehall Township.
Project HomeSafe plans to distribute the locks in New Jersey, but a spokeswoman said a date for that has not been set.
Local hunter Don Leiser said he has hunted in places as far away as Alaska and owns several guns. He picked up two free locks after finishing shopping at Wal-Mart in Bethlehem Township.
"I just want to lock them up so no one can use them when I'm traveling," Leiser said.
Wal-Mart has been an appropriate place to hand out the gunlocks. The big-box retailer is the largest seller of guns in America, selling mostly hunting and target-shooting weapons.
"In general though, we can order just about any gun you would want," said Mark Haldaman, who works in the Bethlehem Township Wal-Mart's sporting goods department.
In recent months, Wal-Mart has earned praise from gun control advocates for ordering its stores to wait until a criminal background check on a purchaser is completed before selling guns to that purchaser, no matter how long the check takes. Project HomeSafe typically sets up a table outside store locations, and if a community doesn't have a Wal-Mart, the group will find a Kmart or similar store, Williams said.
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Reporter Daniel Walsh can be reached at 610-867-5000 or by e-mail at dsw@express-times.com.
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
August 06, 2002
PAWTUCKET -- The Project HomeSafe gun safety lock giveaway program came to the Super Stop & Shop on Beverage Hill Avenue Monday, distributing about 150 cable locks to make guns safer and firearms education information for people who don't own weapons.
That is about average for a Rhode Island location, estimated Matthew Goddard, who has been conducting giveaways at various Rhode Island locations for more than a week. He said he generally gives away between 100 and 300 lockseach time he sets up camp in the state, which he does sometimes twice a day.
By the time the program is completed at the end of this week, Goddard reckons he will have given away between 7,000 and 8,000 locks.
"Compared with other northeast states, that (number) is pretty low," Goddard said. "In western Massachusetts, we give away one or two thousand a day."
Developed by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), Project HomeSafe is funded by a U.S. Justice Department grant. It expects to give away more than three million gun locks nationwide this year alone.
Giveaways will be held today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Super Stop & Shop on Mendon Road in Cumberland and on Wednesday at the Wal-Mart store on Diamond Hill Road in Woonsocket.
"Project HomeSafe has become the most comprehensive firearm safety education program in America," said Bill Brassard, NSSF's managing director of safety programs. "The combination of free gun locking devices, an in-depth safety education component and distribution efforts in states across the country will significantly enhance public awareness of the importance of safe firearm storage in the home."
cThe Pawtucket Times 2002
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878