HB 391 -- Firearms Regulation

Co-Sponsors:  Riback Wilson, Harlan

This bill establishes "The Children's Firearm Accident and
Prevention Act" which creates the crimes of criminal storage of
a firearm in the first and second degree.  A person commits
first degree criminal storage of a firearm if he or she keeps a
loaded firearm on the premises and knows or reasonably should
know that an unsupervised child may gain access to a firearm
that thereby causes death or serious physical injury to himself
or another person.  A person commits second degree criminal
storage of a firearm under the same circumstances as first
degree but the child with access to the firearm thereby causes
injury to another person, or possesses the firearm in a public
place.  Criminal storage in the first degree is a class D
felony.  Criminal storage in the second degree is a class A
misdemeanor.  Numerous exceptions, exigent circumstances, and
familial and victim impact circumstances may apply that limit
the prosecution of these offenses.  The bill also makes firearms
retailers guilty of a class C misdemeanor for failure to
conspicuously display a sign warning of possible civil and
criminal liability if a gun owner does not properly store a
firearm.