Editorial: Keep your guns safe

Have a gun? Lock it up. Keep it safe. It’s the law in Oregon. It’s a good idea to keep the ammunition in a different place, as well. About half the states in the country are similar to Oregon and have the legal requirement that guns must be stored safely. There are trigger locks, cable locks, gun safes. The great thing in the Bend area is you can get gun locks for free. Many other places also give them away. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office has given them away. Mosaic Medical does. Walk in to the Bend Police Department, ask at the front desk and they will give you one. Even the Bend-La Pine Schools will give you one for free, as Steve Cook, superintendent of the Bend schools, said last week. Go to the reception desk at the district’s Education Center, 520 Northwest Wall St. That’s the administration building across from the library downtown. Central Oregon Gun Safety Advocates donated the recent batches to Mosaic Medical and the Bend schools.

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