LOS ANGELES — The county Board of Supervisors advanced a proposal Tuesday that would allow doctors and nurses at county-run hospitals to distribute free gun locks in an effort to promote firearm safety.
“Gun locks can save lives — especially in households with children,” Supervisor Janice Hahn said in a statement after the vote. “Some studies have found that people are more likely to use gun locks if they are given to them by their doctor or in a medical center to take home and I think it is a concept we should explore for our own County hospitals.”
The board unanimously approved a motion by Hahn and Supervisor Hilda Solis that calls on county staff to explore ways of implementing the distribution system, similar to programs operating in other hospitals around the country. The county Department of Public Health’s Office of Violence Prevention and the Department of Health Services was directed to provide a written report within 45 days about the number of county-operated hospitals and medical campuses, the number of gun locks that would be needed to begin the program and a proposed procedure for distribution.
New Orleans Police Department Asst. Superintendent Warren Riley demonstrates how to install a gun lock at a news conference in New Orleans Tuesday, March 22, 2005. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
Bill Oglesby shows how simple a cable lock works to safeguard a gun from children at his gun shop in Springfield, Ill., Friday, April 2, 1999. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
A gun trigger lock is seen on a Smith and Wesson .357 Magnum in Bordentown, N.J., on March 2, 1999. (AP Photo/Jeff Zelevansky)
A Bridgeport, Conn., Police Department officer holds an automatic pistol with a trigger combination lock Thursday, Aug. 13, 1998. A trigger lock with a key is on the left. Both types of locks, which can also be used on rifles, work by preventing the trigger from being fired. (AP Photo Douglas Healey)
The report will also include a proposed timeline for purchasing the locks and the resources needed to obtain them.
“If guns are not safely stored or locked, it can lead to devastating and fatal consequences,” Solis said in a statement. “Gun owners may assume that their families know how to handle a gun, however, if it’s not safely stored or locked, serious injuries or death may result. Hospitals are where many victims end up, and to that end, we can use the opportunity to both educate and provide them with a tangible resource to better protect them and their families from guns — gun locks.”
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