Children sometimes pick up firearms from an unlocked safe that everyone thought was locked and an accident happens.
In my area of the world, that alone right there is reckless and criminal. You are not winning this argument out side of the USA since the very idea of a firearm put away anywhere WITH A LIVE ROUND IN THE CHAMBER is pants on head insane let alone unlocked, unwatched, and in a place accessible by children.
The same line of reasoning gets weird since with the same level of “care” you could accidentally leave a loaded magazine the firearm, or more commonly be stored with live ammo near by. This is just another US invention to sell you a solution from responsibility.
Oh and I have only one firearm (a marlin 22) with this feature, it sucks. It is not safe, you can not use the fire arm without a magazine (silly). It has needed repair 4 times in 5 years (it has malfunctioned both in a way that stops the firearm working and one time in a way that made the bolt slam down when the magazine is inserted sometimes leading to a discharge).
In my area of the world, that alone right there is reckless and criminal. You are not winning this argument out side of the USA since the very idea of a firearm put away anywhere WITH A LIVE ROUND IN THE CHAMBER is pants on head insane let alone unlocked, unwatched, and in a place accessible by children.
The same line of reasoning gets weird since with the same level of “care” you could accidentally leave a loaded magazine the firearm, or more commonly be stored with live ammo near by. This is just another US invention to sell you a solution from responsibility.
Oh and I have only one firearm (a marlin 22) with this feature, it sucks. It is not safe, you can not use the fire arm without a magazine (silly). It has needed repair 4 times in 5 years (it has malfunctioned both in a way that stops the firearm working and one time in a way that made the bolt slam down when the magazine is inserted sometimes leading to a discharge).