Liability insurance for firearms owners?

[fatbaldguy]

Heard something about this today in passing.  Legislation requiring it?  Enforceable?  Anybody got anything?

[tombogan03884]

It's one of the flood of bills introduced .
I'm not sure of the number but JLawson has posted them all individually here:

http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php?board=40.0

[fatbaldguy]

I read all of the titles and some of the text.  Mindnumbing  I feel stupider now than I did before I wasted that 15 minutes.

BTW, I saw no mention of a requirement for liability insurance/backdoor registration.

[crusader rabbit]

At this point, I think the idea of liability insurance is just a stupid concept being advanced by some minor players in the dummycrap party.  However, it it looks like it could gain traction, we may be forced to address it some time down the road.  It is simply a small part of the crap basket of stuff they want to try so gun ownership is made so expensive, or the regulations so onerous that we will submit to their authority and quietly abandon our weapons.  It is further evidence that these morons do not know with whom they are dealing.

FWIW

Crusader

[tombogan03884]

It seems it's being discussed in Mass if nowhere else.

http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/general-discussion/190095-insurers-skeptical-state-moves-toward-mandatory-liability-insurance-gun-owners.html

Here's what a search turned up.

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%20Liability%20insurance%20for%20firearms%20owners&pc=conduit&ptag=A1ABE2870D3204E8590F&form=CONBDF&conlogo=CT3210127&ShowAppsUI=1

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[MikeBjerum]

Just like all other items gun control and Second Amendment, we need to demand answers as to how this is already being applied to or will be applied to other protections.

If voter ID is an unreasonable restriction, if being able to produce ID as proof that you can be here is unreasonable, if requiring English only is discriminatory, what about the hoops and hurdles place on arms?

[JLawson]

FTA:

Democratic lawmakers proposed legislation Tuesday that would require California gun owners to buy liability insurance to cover damages or injuries caused by their weapons.

Similar bills have been introduced in other states after the Newtown, Conn., school massacre. They include Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/05/own-gun-time-to-buy-violence-insurance-california-democrats-say/

[tombogan03884]

It isn't enforceable unless they require background checks on ALL (including private sale) sales, registration, or permission to buy.

[jaybet]

What would justify saddling law abiding gun owners with an additional (and punitive) expense like this? There is no justification to force this...we AND our guns have done nothing wrong.

[tombogan03884]

What would justify saddling law abiding gun owners with an additional (and punitive) expense like this? There is no justification to force this...we AND our guns have done nothing wrong.

That's not the point, the point is like with smoking make it to expensive for the average citizen to exercise their rights.