HB 1025 Summary

• Requires persons storing loaded firearms on premises under their control to keep them in a securely locked box, container, or with a firearm locking mechanism if a minor is likely to gain access without permission or supervision.

• Establishes a second-degree misdemeanor if a firearm is improperly stored and a minor accesses it and possesses, exhibits, uses, or causes injury with it in a public place, rude/careless/angry manner, during a law violation, or when great bodily harm occurs.

• Requires firearm sellers or transferors to provide purchasers with written warnings and a basic firearm safety brochure containing safe handling rules, firearm descriptions, ownership responsibilities, prohibited locations for handguns, and self-defense information.

• Prohibits a person who stores or leaves a loaded firearm within reach of a minor from a third-degree felony if the minor obtains the firearm and uses it to inflict injury or death, unless the firearm was properly secured or accessed through unlawful entry.

• Creates a second-degree misdemeanor for firearm dealers and brochure distributors knowingly violating warning requirements; provides immunity to organizations and dealers from liability for injuries from properly functioning firearms.

• Effective date: October 1, 2019.