(October 21, 2013 at 7:21 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: That is what happens here after schoolshotings.
In fact we have laws here that require each legal owner of a gun to safely store their firearms in a safe or other locked up deposite where the gund is not accessable for anyone who is not trained or mature enought to use it.
Technicaly, the police here has the right to visit any gunowner without a warrant and to check if the guns are stored safely.
I think that those are both excellent ideas. I doubt that the latter would be seriously considered, though. It would likely be seen as a violation of the fourth amendment of the US Constitution (forbidding illegal search and seizure, and typically requiring a warrant that can only be secured if there is sufficient cause).
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-Stephen Jay Gould
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