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Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007

Date: June 28, 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Guns


SCIENCE, STATE, JUSTICE, COMMERCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2007 -- (House of Representatives - June 28, 2006)

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Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. Chairman, I thank my colleague from New York for yielding me time.

I rise to strongly oppose this amendment, which if enacted will lead to more accidental gun shootings in this country, including more deaths of children. Just last October, this Congress passed a piece of legislation that brought broad immunities to the gun industry. And we can have our differences on that issue.

But as part of that legislation that was passed by this Congress and signed by the President back in October, there was a provision, Child Safety Lock Act of 2005. Let me just describe the purposes: To promote the safe storage and use of handguns by consumers; to prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to or use of a handgun, including children who may not be in possession of a handgun.

Who can argue against those purposes? That was the intent of the legislation. It said, if you are a gun dealer and you are selling a gun, let's at the very least ensure that you have to sell at the same time a gun safety lock to protect against accidental shootings. We know the terrible statistics of accidental shooting deaths of children in this country. Let's not change what this Congress did on a bipartisan basis.

And when this came up in the Senate, there was a bipartisan vote in support of this.

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