According to FirearmChronicles
City council members in Alameda, California voted unanimously on Tuesday to require all legal gun owners in the Bay-area city to store their firearms in a locked container or with a trigger lock, unless the firearm is being physically carried in the home. The new law is ostensibly meant to crack down on firearms thefts, according to one city council member. “We’re not trying to criminalize the legal possession of firearms,” Councilman Jim Oddie said Tuesday when the council unanimously approved an ordinances regulating gun use. “What we are trying to do is to prevent firearms from getting into the hands of people who should not possess them.” What they’re actually trying to do is wrap the Second Amendment up tight in red tape, making it more difficult for people to use a firearm for self-defense inside their home.
That new local law isn’t the only change coming to Alameda. The town’s sole gun store will also have to abide by draconian new requirements that will force the business to purchase thousands of dollars in video surveillance equipment if it’s going to continue to operate in Alameda.
Among other things, the ordinance requires firearms dealers to videotape sales transactions and gun owners whose weapons are stolen or lost to report them missing within 24 hours to avoid criminal prosecution. State law requires a missing firearm be reported within five days.
Encouraging victims to report the loss sooner could help law enforcement track and more quickly recover the gun, according to Deputy City Attorney Montague Hung.