Gun safe law in CO?

[rondog]

Does CO have a law about keeping guns locked up? In a safe or otherwise?

Not debating the wisdom of locking up or not, just curious if there's a LAW about it.

[Irving]

Not that I've ever heard of. What got you thinking about it?

[Mazin]

No. I actually called a gas station clerk out on floating a whole bunch of bs about guns to another customer. The laws we have are stupid enough let's not try to add to them.

Didn't happen to stop at the Valero on Laredo and 6th did you?

[ScottR65]

Does CO have a law about keeping guns locked up? In a safe or otherwise?

Not debating the wisdom of locking up or not, just curious if there's a LAW about it.

No there is not. However traditional laws of criminal negligence and civil liability are strong motivators to keep weapons safely secured.


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[rondog]

Some yahoo said something about a Colorado gun safe law on Facebook but didn't reply when I asked for the CRS, so I figgered this group would know.

[Great-Kazoo]

NO, Negative, not at all, yet.

[MarkCO]

They are working on one, and a 10 round mag limit, and a Red Flag law...going to be a brutal spring.

[BPTactical]

They are working on turning law abiding citizens into felons..going to be a brutal spring.

IFIFY

[Grant H.]

They are working on one, and a 10 round mag limit, and a Red Flag law...going to be a brutal spring.

They are working on turning law abiding citizens into felons...going to be a brutal spring.

IFIFY

Both are very true, and very bad for CO residents.

[Martinjmpr]

Such a law has been proposed at least once in the past, maybe more than once. But it's never been passed, in fact I don't think the previously proposed laws ever made it out of committee.

So, simple answer, no, there is not a "safe storage" law in Colorado.

Now, having said that, if you store your weapons in such a way that it makes it likely that some unauthorized person (like a minor child) can get ahold of them and injure or kill someone else, there could very well be civil liability.

Also, if a child gets ahold of a firearm and injures himself or another person the owner of the gun could potentially be prosecuted for criminal negligence, child abuse or neglect, or something similar depending on the circumstances.

But there is no black-letter law that requires a firearm to be locked up.