Waste
The Child Safety Lock Act of 2005 requires guns to come with a lock. Yesterday, I threw away 13 of them. Such a waste of money. And they’ll spend just shy of forever in a landfill. But it’s the law. For the children.
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March 28th, 2011 at 10:04 am
If it’s a cable lock I’ll hang on to it, since they can be used for other things, including as a handy substitute for a traditional padlock.
Trigger locks, on the other hand, I have absolutely no use for, and I’ll get rid of those ASAP, since they’re actually dangerous when used for their designed purpose. Violating Rule 3 is bad, mm’kay.
March 28th, 2011 at 10:17 am
Offer them to your local gun store (LGS). They can set a bin of them by the counter, complete with sign “Have a gun lock, leave a gun lock. Need a gun lock, take a gun lock”. That’s what we did when the law first passed, and it seemed to work pretty well. My LGS seemed to think that if they left the store with the lock, he was legal and they could just bring it back on the next visit if they later decided they didn’t need it.
I also keep the cable locks, and don’t allow the locks that go inside the trigger guard on my range.
March 28th, 2011 at 10:17 am
My daughter raised a lamb for high school Future Farmers of America. The high school farm consisted of several rows of covered pens for the lambs, kids, chicks and piglets the kids raised.
Several pens were secured with cable gun locks. Ours was a Ruger lock. Our lamb never managed to unlock its pen.
Nothing more dangerous than an unconstrained lamb.
March 28th, 2011 at 10:25 am
I would have used it for my luggage. Screw the TSA’s convenience. Make ’em use bolt cutters.
March 28th, 2011 at 11:13 am
I oughta go through my boxes and see how many I have. I usually just keep them in the box the gun came in and those all go in a stack in the closet.
March 28th, 2011 at 11:28 am
Most of the cable locks I’ve seen are dangerous: flimsy thin key, that fits roughly into the tumblers and flexes as it turns. Imagine urgently needing access to your cable-locked gun, and you bend/break that damned key.
March 28th, 2011 at 11:36 am
They probably cost the company almost as much as it would to stick an extra mag in the box for ya.
March 28th, 2011 at 12:40 pm
I work at the gun counter at the local Cabela’s and when I show people their new gun-to-be I always tell them it’s the Federally required bicycle lock and that if they need any more the local law enforcement usually has a box of them free on the counter.
March 28th, 2011 at 12:51 pm
There’s a shop I know of where they absolutely hate the lock mandate, and refuse to profit from it. They’ll buy any approved CA gun lock in the original packaging for $1. They all go into a bin next to the counter, and if you need one for what ever reason you can buy it…..for the same $1.
March 28th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
That’s a gun’s worth of steel right there.
March 28th, 2011 at 1:37 pm
That’s what those are for? I thought that they were complimentary gate locks, like a marketing thing. I’ve seen dozens on gates from west Texas to east Oklahoma, but I’ve never seen one on a gun.
March 28th, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Ive used them on guns when flying, so I have a second on on the gun in the case, which makes the already busy counter attendants more at ease when verifying that is is unloaded and secured.
My grandfather stopped over with a few the one day because some police display had them and couldn’t give the locks away, so they gave him a case. He thought I could use some because I have ‘so many” guns. What a hoot, I at least appreciated the thought of it.
March 28th, 2011 at 3:03 pm
The lock which came with my Beretta .22 comes in really handy for locking the front wheel of my mountain bike to my roof rack. Now, if we could only get Big Daddy Gubberment to mandate a chain-breaking tool with every gun sale, I’d be set.
March 28th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
I’ve used them for lightweight bike locks when I ride. Simply lock the detachable wheels to the frame, and lock the frame to the rack. Yeah, you can cut through them in about a minute, but they’re a lot lighter than the chain I used to carry, and I was able to cut through an end link on that chain with my portable dremil tool in about 40 seconds. Locks keep honest people honest, no need to carry around a five pound bike lock for peace of mind.
March 28th, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Locks keep
honestcasually dishonest peoplehonestat bay.Fixed it for you.
Lack of a lock has no effect on honest people – they’ll leave it alone because it doesn’t belong to them.
[/rant] (Sorry, that touched on a pet peeve. Not so long, but off topic, story.)
March 28th, 2011 at 6:44 pm
I give them to people on the street. Thugs need cable locks more than law abiding citizens. I also recycle the omega locks through my lgs, who pay it forward and give them away instead of charging them
March 28th, 2011 at 6:55 pm
I save them for the rims of asshats that doublepark at the mall during Christmas shopping season. 🙂
March 29th, 2011 at 3:41 am
A) You are going to wish you had those when you move to California! 🙂
B) I actually find all sorts of non-gun uses for them, to lock various things to other things (even use one on my bicycle to lock the wheel to the frame).
March 29th, 2011 at 6:48 am
They’re worth something to someone; use Craigslist! Give ’em back to the local police department. Give them away! Good luck.
March 31st, 2011 at 5:04 pm
Send them to Chuck Schumer with a note to kiss your ass.