Congress exploited the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to erode our Second Amendment rights.
A gun restriction provision that creates a “pilot program on safe storage of personally owned guns” is concealed within the Fiscal Year 2023 NDAA.
Although the pilot program is ostensibly “optional” for military personnel, everyone knows that this is a slippery slope toward making safe storage necessary for all individuals.
When it comes to safe storage rules, Joe Biden has stated that his ultimate goal is to “impose personal culpability for not locking up your gun.”
Unfortunately, 176 Republicans supported this bill, moving our country one step closer to passing laws requiring you to store your firearms in a safe.
If the safe storage amendment is only meant to be a “voluntary” suggestion, then why was it even necessary to make it part of the law?
We all know the answer. It’s not really intended to be voluntary, but rather, it’s intended to provide a pathway for mandating that Americans lock up every gun they own- even the ones they rely on for self-defense.
Look, gun safes can be valuable tools for gun owners.
But it should be YOUR decision – and your decision alone – whether you want to lock your gun in safe storage.
The government has no business telling you where to keep your firearm on your private property.
In fact, GOA’s own Stephen Willeford, who used an AR-15 to stop the Sutherland Springs, mass murderer, REGRETS keeping the firearm he used locked and unloaded.
In his own words: “I lost 90 precious seconds retrieving my firearm from a safe.”
If the government gets its way and makes this “voluntary” safe storage amendment mandatory, we all may find ourselves wishing we could get 90 seconds back the next time a life-or-death situation strikes.