Post by pavel on Mar 23, 2016 5:53:28 GMT -6
NASHVILLE — A state House committee on Tuesday voted down for this year a bill that would have penalized adult gun owners who leave loaded guns unlocked and accessible when children under age 13 get hold of them.
Penalties would increase under the bill if the child hurt or killed themselves or somebody else with the gun.
The House Civil Justice Committee killed the bill on a 2-7 vote, with Democrats Bill Beck and Sherry Jones of Nashville voting to advance the bill and seven Republicans voting against it — Reps. Mike Carter of Ooltewah, Jim Coley of Bartlett, Martin Daniel of Knoxville, John Forgety of Athens, Jamie Jenkins of Somerville, Jon Lundberg of Bristol, and Courtney Rogers of Hendersonville.
The bill, called “MaKayla’s Law” by its sponsors, was prompted by the gun deaths of 12 children in Tennessee since January 2015, including 8-year-old MaKayla Dyer of White Pine in East Tennessee, who was shot by her 11-year-old neighbor after he removed his father’s shotgun from a closet last October.
Read more: www.commercialappeal.com/news/government/state/bill-to-keep-guns-from-kids-stalls-in-house-committee-2ea53e4b-dd53-789d-e053-0100007f02a5-373084101.html
Penalties would increase under the bill if the child hurt or killed themselves or somebody else with the gun.
The House Civil Justice Committee killed the bill on a 2-7 vote, with Democrats Bill Beck and Sherry Jones of Nashville voting to advance the bill and seven Republicans voting against it — Reps. Mike Carter of Ooltewah, Jim Coley of Bartlett, Martin Daniel of Knoxville, John Forgety of Athens, Jamie Jenkins of Somerville, Jon Lundberg of Bristol, and Courtney Rogers of Hendersonville.
The bill, called “MaKayla’s Law” by its sponsors, was prompted by the gun deaths of 12 children in Tennessee since January 2015, including 8-year-old MaKayla Dyer of White Pine in East Tennessee, who was shot by her 11-year-old neighbor after he removed his father’s shotgun from a closet last October.
Read more: www.commercialappeal.com/news/government/state/bill-to-keep-guns-from-kids-stalls-in-house-committee-2ea53e4b-dd53-789d-e053-0100007f02a5-373084101.html