Mass. high court upholds gun storage law

[jpak]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/01/29/mass-high-court-upholds-gun-storage-law/GMwd6NoCPYCMnATrBQkrNI/story.html

BOSTON (AP) — The highest court in Massachusetts on Tuesday rejected challenges to the state’s gun storage law, finding that it is ‘‘reasonably designed’’ to prevent unauthorized people from gaining access to guns and does not violate the Second Amendment right to keep them for self-defense in the home.

The law requires that guns not under the immediate control of their owners be stored in locked containers or that they be equipped with a safety device that makes them inoperable by anyone other than the owner or authorized users.

The Supreme Judicial Court found that the storage law is aimed at protecting the health, safety and welfare of citizens and does not violate the Second Amendment right to keep guns for self-defense in the home.

‘‘We conclude that, where (the law) allows the owner of a firearm to carry or otherwise keep the firearm under the owner’s immediate control within the home, and where the storage requirements are reasonably designed to prevent persons who are not licensed to possess or carry a firearm, including felons, the mentally ill, and children, from gaining illegal access to a firearm, (the law) falls outside the scope of the right to bear arms protected by the Second Amendment,’’ Justice Ralph Gants wrote for the court in a challenge brought by a Springfield man.

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[gejohnston]

1. the "or" could be the key difference between it and DC

http://www.gunvault.com/gun-safes/biometric-gun-safes.html?price=3%2C100

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Seems legit.

I'm already in compliance with this law even though my state has no such law.

[Eleanors38]

3. What's new? nt

[ManiacJoe]

4. Seems like a reasonable ruling.

The law even seems reasonable.