[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6616]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                    TRIGGER LOCKS ARE NOT THE ANSWER

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, on March 23 in my district a 12-year-old 
boy took a loaded gun to school. Thank God, no one was hurt. But guess 
what, Mr. Speaker. The gun had a trigger lock. The boy simply searched 
for and found the key and, bingo, the gun was at school.
  So I checked out this trigger lock business and uncovered a General 
Accounting Office report that says trigger locks are only effective for 
children under 6 years of age.
  Six-year-old criminals? Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.
  I assure my colleagues, no 6-year-old will mug them at 3 o'clock in 
the morning. It is not about trigger locks. It is about enforcing the 
gun laws we already have.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back what is left of our decimated second 
amendment rights.

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