September 4, 2008 6:33 PM
Loudoun gun owners - free safety locks
The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office is encouraging gun owners to pick up free safety kits. The agency has over 1000 gunlocks that were donated to them by Project ChildSafe, a nationwide firearms safety education program in an effort to prevent gun accidents in the homes of county residents.
The safety kits, which include a gunlock, will be distributed on a first come-first serve basis at three Sheriff's Office facilities in the county. The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office Administration Building, located at 39 Catoctin Circle, SE Leesburg, VA, the Dulles South Public Safety Center located at 25216 Loudoun County Parkway in Chantilly, VA, and the Ashburn substation located at 45299 Research Place in Ashburn, VA. The gunlocks can be picked-up between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Loudoun Sheriff Steve Simpson encouraged residents who have a gun in their home to pick up a Project ChildSafe safety kit so that they can securely store their firearm. "The goal of the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office and Project ChildSafe is to keep Loudoun's children out of harms way," said Simpson. The agency hopes to prevent a child or any other unauthorized person from accessing a firearm in your home. By partnering with Project ChildSafe, the Sheriff's Office is participating in a growing national effort to promote firearms safety education to all gun owners.
"We are pleased to have the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office as a Project ChildSafe partner," said a spokesperson for the program. "Project ChildSafe is an important step forward in helping ensure that all firearms owners fully understand their responsibilities with respect to the safe handling and storage of firearms."
Each kit contains a safety curriculum and a cable style gunlock. The locks fit on most types of handguns, rifles and shotguns.
Tripp and I will be picking up ours. Y'all get on over there too!
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