The Brighton Police Department has free locks available for gun owners at 440 S. Third St. The locks or cables, secured by a key, feed through guns to prevent them from being loaded or fired.

Safety advocates are hoping free gun locks will increase public awareness about safe firearm storage, said Dee Dee Dockins, national spokeswoman for the National Shooting Sports Foundation ...

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The gun locks are paid for, in part, by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration through a grant based at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

An LMPD sergeant demonstrates gun cable locks on several different firearm types. "We're taking the education to the communities where it's needed most," Corniel said.

Even the cable locks that are provided under a US Justice Department grant to law enforcement agencies through Project ChildSafe for free dissemination to gun owners are inadequate.

I think I had 17 or 20 with me.”Daniel says those locks are there to protect children – not to shame gun owners for requesting one.“There’s not anything wrong with that.