Safe Storage and Locks

States can have policies requiring owners to either store guns in places that are inaccessible to children and/or use safety locks to help protect women and their families from guns kept in homes.

Does the state have statutes requiring safe storage?

States that have both laws requiring gun owners to take child access prevention measures and laws requiring gun locking devices receive a "meets policy." States that have either child access prevention laws or locking device laws (but not both) receive a "limited policy," and states that have neither receive a "no policy."

The 2010 Report Card uses a different source for this indicator than in 2007, therefore there is no comparison to 2007.

State	Strength of Policy	Change from 2007
Alabama	No Policy	N/A
Alaska	No Policy	N/A
Arizona	No Policy	N/A
Arkansas	No Policy	N/A
California	Meets Policy	N/A
Colorado	Limited Policy	N/A
Connecticut	Meets Policy	N/A
Delaware	Limited Policy	N/A
District of Columbia	Limited Policy	N/A
Florida	Limited Policy	N/A
Georgia	Limited Policy	N/A
Hawaii	Limited Policy	N/A
Idaho	No Policy	N/A
Illinois	Meets Policy	N/A
Indiana	Limited Policy	N/A
Iowa	Limited Policy	N/A
Kansas	No Policy	N/A
Kentucky	Limited Policy	N/A
Louisiana	No Policy	N/A
Maine	No Policy	N/A
Maryland	Meets Policy	N/A
Massachusetts	Meets Policy	N/A
Michigan	Limited Policy	N/A
Minnesota	Limited Policy	N/A
Mississippi	Limited Policy	N/A
Missouri	Limited Policy	N/A
Montana	No Policy	N/A
Nebraska	No Policy	N/A
Nevada	Limited Policy	N/A
New Hampshire	Limited Policy	N/A
New Jersey	Meets Policy	N/A
New Mexico	No Policy	N/A
New York	Limited Policy	N/A
North Carolina	Limited Policy	N/A
North Dakota	No Policy	N/A
Ohio	Limited Policy	N/A
Oklahoma	Limited Policy	N/A
Oregon	No Policy	N/A
Pennsylvania	Limited Policy	N/A
Rhode Island	Meets Policy	N/A
South Carolina	No Policy	N/A
South Dakota	No Policy	N/A
Tennessee	Limited Policy	N/A
Texas	Limited Policy	N/A
Utah	Limited Policy	N/A
Vermont	No Policy	N/A
Virginia	Limited Policy	N/A
Washington	No Policy	N/A
West Virginia	No Policy	N/A
Wisconsin	Limited Policy	N/A
Wyoming	No Policy	N/A

Policy Indicator Counts

Meets Policy:

7

Limited Policy:

25

Weak Policy:

0

No/Harmful Policy:

19

Better:

0

Same:

0

Worse:

0

Data Source: Legal Community Against Violence, "Regulating Guns in America," 2008, available at: http://www.lcav.org/publications-briefs/regulating_guns.asp, accessed September 10, 2010; Legal Community Against Violence, "Recent Developments in State Law, Firearms Policy," updated March 10, 2010, available at http://www.lcav.org/content/recent_developments_policies.asp, accessed Septmeber 10, 2010; Legal Community Against Violence, "Recent Developments in State Law," updated June 20, 2010, available at http://www.lcav.org/states/recent_developments.asp, accessed September 10, 2010.