Safe Firearm Storage

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Mr. MENEFEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to introduce the Kimberly Vaughan Firearm Safe Storage Act.

Eight years ago, Kimberly was a student at a Texas high school, and she and several of her classmates and teachers were murdered by a student who brought his parents' gun to school because it was not properly secured.

Their deaths were both a tragedy and entirely preventable.

Safe firearm storage is one of the simplest and most effective ways to reduce gun violence, suicides, accidental deaths, and having stolen weapons end up in the hands of people who should not have them.

Seven million children in this country are in a home with a loaded and unlocked firearm. Every year, hundreds of kids are killed and injured because guns are within arms' reach.

This bill aims to change that. It requires safe storage devices with every firearm sale. It provides grants so that communities can distribute those devices. And it gives retailers a tax credit to make it easier for them to do the right thing.

Kimberly and her schoolmates should have come home that day. This bill ensures that every single kid does.

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