On the Eureka Police Department’s official blog, Chief Andy Mills announced he is asking the city attorney to draft an ordinance that will require Eureka gun owners to lock up unattended weapons.
Mills wrote that the law is in response to recent guns thefts, including one from a gun dealer, and will apply to firearms at businesses or homes.
A similar law in San Francisco that requires handguns to be locked up at home recently survived a U.S. Supreme Court challenge. Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom recently announced he’ll push a ballot initiative for stricter gun control laws.
Mills says the issue will go before the Eureka City Council on Tuesday. The EPD blog includes a poll asking whether the public supports the idea. As the Journal put up this post, 51 percent of respondents had said “Lock up the guns.”
This article appears in Getting Compliant.
Sure, pass the law! We should also pass a law that makes it illegal to shout “fire” in your home, with nobody there to hear you!
All kidding aside, I’m totally for improving safety, and security. But this can’t be enforced! Why pass a law that can’t be enforced, and probably won’t even be followed?
Does anyone else find it ironic that the theft of property worth less than $950 was made a misdemeanor and now Chief Mills wants to criminalize the victims of said theft? Why is it that law abiding citizens are burdened with more and more but criminals are being held less and less responsible? When was the last time you heard of anyone sentenced to an extra 5 years for use of a firearm in the commission of a crime? It’s the first thing plea bargained away.
This is just another example of government getting into our personal lives. If a lawful abiding citizen wants to keep a loaded firearm safely inside their residence it is their business. Chief Mills and the government has no business telling someone what goes on their bedroom.
Maybe Mills should move to San Franfreakshow. This just another waste of taxpayer dollars that accomplishes nothing except add further restrictions to personal liberty. Good to know that Mills is a other Kalifornia libtard politician.
Are people really this intellectually inept? For one, look at the poll questions. Answer not in favor of “locking up the guns” and you look like the bad guy. 51 percent said to lock them up, because there is no other option proposed in the poll! Perhaps the problem to address is the THEFT! Are we really punishing the VICTIMS of these crimes by making them criminals themselves? Hey, Chief, how about better policing of the actual criminals!
I’m not from Eureka but I live in Humboldt and its upsetting to see one of our own jump on the bandwago of punishing the citizens. Instead of being supportive and banding together he would make criminals out of all who would defend themselves….or you. We have always survived up here by watching each others backs. Thats what it means to be part of a community.I watch out for my neighbors stuff like they watch mine because it is in our mutual best interest. That included the police at one time, back before everyone was criminals.
Heaven forbid that I can defend myself in my own home by having quick and ready access to a gun. This whole gun control issue is littered with emotional and poorly thought out bans and ordinances.
Creating any reluctance on the part of a gun owner to report their firearm stolen is not good. Punishing a victim is equally abhorrent. How the police can, in good conscience, try to have us believe that the majority of people support such an unnecessary law, in this county of all places, puts their integrity into question. I don’t own a gun, I will never own a gun, guns are simply “not my thing”, but the issue is common sense.
Considering that there has been a recent string of Law Enforcement having their duty weapons stolen because the Officers just left them laying unlocked in their Cars, I thing the Chief may be trying to deflect. You had the BLM LEO who’s pistol was stolen by an illegal alien and used to commit the murder of Kate Steinle, there was another officer who left his gun sitting unsecured in a gym bag on the front seat of his car last month. This is not a LEO Bashing thread other than to point out the hypocrisy of the Chiefs Argument. Will he require this same thing of his officers or will he have an exemption put in for his officers in a typical “Do as I say, Not as I do” police ploy?
If your front door or your car is locked isn’t that “Under Lock and Key?” The location of the lock is what is in question.