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Gun locks

MgderfMgderf Member Posts: 907 ✭✭✭
edited April 2016 in Ask the Experts
A nephew of mine just showed me his new AR15, purchased this morning from a box store retailer.
The rifle, Anderson Manufacturing, came sans an owners manual r a gun lock of any kind.
I called the store and they told me that Anderson manufacturing does not supply a printed owners manual, but offers one for a free download online. O.K. a little cheesy, but..

About the lack of a gun lock though, I was under the impression that all new firearms had to be accompanied by a gun lock by federal mandate.
Store says the manufacturer does not supply one.

Am I mistaken thinking it should have come with a lock?
I had an extra so I just gave him one, but I thought sure the manufacturer was required to supply one, or is that only for handguns?

Comments

  • nmyersnmyers Member Posts: 16,879 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Child Safety Lock Act of 2005 requires dealers to supply a lock with any handgun sold. State & local law vary, but may be more or less restrictive.

    Neal
  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Safety Lock Act was 2005, and, as said, applies to handguns when transferred to a non-licensee, does not apply to C&R firearms.
  • beantownshootahbeantownshootah Member Posts: 12,776 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Mgderf
    A nephew of mine just showed me his new AR15, purchased this morning from a box store retailer.
    The rifle, Anderson Manufacturing, came sans an owners manual r a gun lock of any kind.
    I called the store and they told me that Anderson manufacturing does not supply a printed owners manual, but offers one for a free download online. O.K. a little cheesy, but..

    About the lack of a gun lock though, I was under the impression that all new firearms had to be accompanied by a gun lock by federal mandate.
    Store says the manufacturer does not supply one.

    Am I mistaken thinking it should have come with a lock?
    I had an extra so I just gave him one, but I thought sure the manufacturer was required to supply one, or is that only for handguns?

    Merits of the lock itself aside, as already mentioned Federal law requires a lock with handguns, not long guns. Note that STATE law may be different. At least some States (eg Massachusetts) require a lock to be included with EVERY gun sale.

    As a general rule, gun dealers tend to be meticulous about following the relevant law to the letter. . .otherwise they get shut down and/or sent to jail. They usually know the relevant requirements pretty well, given that they deal with them every single day!

    On electronic-only manual, I agree that's cheesy, but it does save cost.

    As a matter of practice, I strongly doubt there is anything different about this AR-15 than 100 otherwise identical models from other manufacturers.

    At this point ARs are basically a "commodity". Not only are the different guns functionally identical, to a large extent, they're LITERALLY identical. . .most makers are just assembling parts they acquire from a small number of manufacturers. Many of them don't even fabricate their own receivers in house, and those that do are using computerized modern manufacture, such that practical differences between different makes is minimal.

    So in practice, any AR literature from any manufacturer, or even third party will probably tell you anything you'd need to know from a maintenance, safety, and dissassembly standpoint.
  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You need gun locks, I got a drawer full of them. Kalifornia requires that you buy one if the gun doesn't come with one. If you don't buy it from the dealer you need a receipt from within a few days.
    I buy one from Wal-Mart on the way to pick up the gun & then take it back on my way home.[:D]
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