2020 Senate Bill 953

Criminalize leaving gun where minor can get it

Introduced in the Senate

June 3, 2020

Introduced by Sen. Rosemary Bayer (D-12)

To make it a crime to store or leave a firearm where it may be accessed by a minor, subject to five years in prison if a minor uses the gun to injure or kill himself or another person, and lesser penalties if a minor takes the gun out in public, uses it in a threatening or careless manner, etc.

Referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety