“As many of us are about to gather for Christmas, Hannakuh, Kwanzaa and the new year, this safe storage program allows responsible gun owners to store their firearms outside the home while loved ones gather around and ensure everyone’s safety,” Albi said.
The program is expected to particularly benefit individuals in crisis or at risk of suicide, those traveling and needing to secure their firearms, or those wanting to prevent access to a firearm when family and children are visiting, city leaders said.
In 2023, city council passed an ordinance requiring the safe storage of guns, specifically around children. It ordered that any parents or guardians who do not properly store their guns and “create a substantial risk to the health or safety of the child” can be charged with a first-degree misdemeanor.
That ordinance was met with legal challenges and ultimately became ineffective. Vice Mayor Jan-Michele Kearny said she hopes the new voluntary program will prove successful.
“There are free (gun) locks everywhere. Police headquarters have locks. Our rec centers have locks. Libraries have locks. Community events have locks. There are locks everywhere,” Kearny said. “And yet people are not using them to lock up their guns…we really need to make sure that guns are stored safely and that people have a means of getting them out the house with folks at risk.”
— Valerie Lyons in Cincinnati Leaders Want You to Voluntarily Hand Your Guns Over to Police in New Safe Storage Program
“this safe storage program allows …”
… police to find out who has guns and run their serial numbers and match ownership with any complaints and … a whole lot more. When you surrender your property to any ‘government’ entity for any reason you are also surrendering ownership either temporarily or permanently and they can do anything with it they want to do while its in their custody.
If this were a world where we could trust a government ot would be different…but in this world of anti-gun interest wanting to intentionally violate your constitutional rights I would not recommend you do this. They simply can not be trusted.
Another one of those ideas that won’t help anything, but makes a meager attempt to show they are doing SOMETHING. So for the rest of the year they don’t care. Stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of.
will they serialize them for me?
Ghosts of Christmas past?
You can bet your bottom dollar that they will create a manifest of who/whom owns what right down to the gun. If you own a gun that was bought before the 4473 days, who knows how they will react and what consequences the owner will be subjected to. Common sense: They have to create a list to know which gun belongs to whom. Not no but Hell No!
If they trusted POTG, they would not even think of such an exercise.