Video & Transcript Research : 'gun storage'

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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy Committee 2/25/26

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Conversely, states with weak safe storage laws face a near 18 times increase in gun theft.
  • > on safe storage requirements for guns on safe storage requirements for guns on school<00:47:
  • must normalize safe gun storage and update our gun storage laws.
  • must normalize safe gun storage and update our gun storage laws.
  • Consistently on the rise, [clears throat], we must normalize safe gun storage and update our gun storage
Bills: HF3409, HF3487, HF3401
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 2/24/26

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • > violence<00:02:30.239> have senseless acts of gun violence have senseless acts of gun
  • duty to protect us from guns." duty to protect us from guns."
  • It's not just the guns, but it's the guns. Public opinion is on our side.
  • the guns, but it's the guns. the guns, but it's the guns.
  • of gun crime. of gun crime.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 11th, 2025

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • We do not have a gun... by the use of a firearm.
  • We do not have a gun safe storage program in the state of Alabama.
  • , the bill is simply a bill that's going to protect... is simply a bill that's going to protect the gun
  • This amendment will ensure that the gun dealers will also, like I say, be strictly voluntary.
  • other people as well. ...able to help other people as well that may be struggling and have access to guns
Bills: SB36, SB39, SB40, SB12, SB29, SB121, SB131, SB12
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 2/25/26

Elections Finance and Government Operations

Transcript Highlights:
  • ability of local governments to pass gun ability of local governments to pass gun safety<00:07:26.720
  • , and requiring safe storage.
  • ghost guns and requiring safe storage. ghost guns and requiring safe storage.
  • I'm scared of good guys with guns. I'm scared of good guys with guns.
  • guns and the babies and the children and the people that we lose to guns.
Bills: HF3351
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Criminal Jurisprudence Mar 11th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • They are strictly looking for guns and unfortunately with increasing frequency they're finding guns.
  • Once I break into the car, And I realized there's a gun there.
  • You're saying it bumps it up to a state jail felony if I take the gun and I keep the gun.
  • Right, since the focus is on the gun, there's got to be an intent.
  • The Constitution requires it to take a gun.
Bills: HB268, HB305, HB307
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • I co-lead the Texas Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence alongside my friend and colleague from Texas Gun
  • are touched by gun violence, or the fear of gun violence in some way or another.
  • Instead, they're convinced that the answer to this crisis, which is caused by guns, is more guns.
  • More guns are not the solution. More gun safety laws are. That's why we're here today.
  • We know that domestic abuse and guns is a deadly combination.
Summary: The committee meeting was dominated by discussions surrounding gun violence legislation and the implications of proposed bills aimed at easing access to firearms. Numerous advocates and survivors of gun violence shared their emotional testimonies, expressing concerns about the safety of children and communities in the aftermath of tragic incidents. Notable speakers included representatives and community leaders who condemned the proposals that would allow younger individuals to obtain handguns and reduce restrictions on firearm carry in schools. The meeting concluded with a rallying call for lawmakers to prioritize public safety over the interests of gun lobbying groups.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/10/26

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • here we are together presenting uh a gun here we are together presenting uh a gun bill<00:23:12.559
  • He said he knows there were grants available for gun safes, and that they did see an increase in guns
  • He said he knows there were grants available for gun safes, and that they did see an increase in guns
  • there was grants available for gun there was grants available for gun safes.<00:32:03.840> Um
  • guns and then<00:32:08.000> storing<00:32:08.240> the<00:32:08.480> guns<00:32:08.799
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Feb 27th, 2025

Alabama Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • space as the holding grow and storage space as the holding grow and storage space as the holding grow
  • exhibits educational and public storage exhibits educational and public storage exhibits educational
  • areas folders controll access to storage areas folders controll access to storage areas fire protection
  • and still we make ways justice but yet and still we make ways for the criminal to be able to get a gun
  • for the criminal to be able to get a gun for the criminal to be able to get a gun without them even
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Feb 27th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Gun violence is happening in your district every day on some level.
  • And as sad as this might sound you will all know someone that is affected by gun violence in your lives
  • The common sense gun reform that we can do the common sense guns safety issue that we can do a member
  • And so think as these people stand out there today and rally for common... gun reform, think about what
  • human beings who want to serve our constituency, our shared constituency in the state of Texas. and gun
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Border Security (Part II) Apr 3rd, 2025

Border Security

Transcript Highlights:
  • If a gun owner chooses to sell a firearm to an individual they know to be a member of a foreign terrorist
  • The bill does include an exemption for federally licensed gun dealers and manufacturers.
  • The committee substitute removes the exemption for federally licensed gun dealers.
  • Guns and money go south. Uh, just on the southbound operations.
  • Is, you know, stop buying the drugs and stop buying, stop selling guns, and, you know, from the citizens
Bills: SB36, SB2202
Summary: The Senate Committee on Border Security heard Senator Birdwell present SB 2202, which would create a state offense for knowingly transferring a firearm for profit or other remuneration to a member of a foreign terrorist organization. Birdwell argued the bill responds to cartel violence and southbound gun trafficking, and he explained a committee substitute that removed an exemption for federally licensed gun dealers and removed a requirement that DPS coordinate with Mexican law enforcement. He said the goal was to give Texas a state-level tool if federal enforcement is lacking. Invited testimony came from DPS Colonel Freeman Martin and border prosecution unit chair Tanya Ash. Both said the bill could be useful in some organized-crime and cartel cases, but they emphasized that proving a defendant knowingly transferred a gun to a foreign terrorist organization would be difficult and would usually require strong direct or circumstantial evidence, such as recorded statements, informants, or coordinated investigations. They said the measure would be more workable in complex cartel cases than in routine patrol stops, and they noted existing state and federal tools already address straw purchases, firearms trafficking, and related offenses. Members also discussed tracing seized firearms, cooperation with ATF, and the limits of state jurisdiction over international issues. No public testimony was offered, and SB 2202 was left pending. The committee then took up SB 36 as pending business. A committee substitute was adopted without objection, and the substitute bill was reported favorably to the full Senate by a 4-0 vote, with Senators Birdwell, Flores, Hinojosa of Hidalgo, Eckhardt, and Hinojosa of Nueces participating. The committee also accepted a motion in writing and ordered the bill recommended for local and uncontested calendar placement. The chair then announced the committee would recess subject to call.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Apr 14th, 2025

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm a gun lawyer.
  • I'm a gun owner. I have many guns.
  • And unsurprisingly, gun violence in this state has increased; gun homicides have increased 60% in the
  • Why should someone who contributes to the gun flow over the border be able to possess a gun so easily
  • Richard Hayes, Counsel for Gun Owners of America, testifying on behalf of myself and for Gun Owners of
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Apr 14th, 2025

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • We need you to keep guns off of school grounds, not put more guns into schools.
  • The rules you want about no guns... in fact, almost every crime with a gun is committed in a no-gun zone
  • As a gun owner, I support responsible gun ownership in appropriate places.
  • As a gun owner and as a pastor, I do not want guns in polling places.
  • guns. If guns made us safer, we'd already be safer. But we're not.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • The bill does include an exemption for federal agents, gun dealers, and manufacturers.
  • The committee substitute removes the following provisions... ...federally licensed gun dealers.
  • Let's go north; guns and money go south.
  • Some of the times when we take down drug loads, we also take down guns going south, and you get all that
  • They're really interested in every southbound arrest and seizure that we... have with multiple guns that
Bills: SB36, SB2202, SB 36