If you have a firearm in your home or vehicle, for your safety and that of your loved
ones, you must know how to use and store it properly.
Every firearm owner should be familar with this state
law.
North Carolina General Statute 14-315.1.
Storage of firearms to protect minors.
(A minor is anyone under 18 years old.)
(a) Any person who resides in the same premise as a minor, owns or possesses a firearm, and
stores or leaves the firearm (i) in a condition that the firearm can be discharged adn (ii) in a manner that
theperson knew or should have known that an unsupervised minor would be able to gain access to the firearm, is
guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor if a minor gains access to the firearm without the lawful permission of th eminor's
parents or a person having charge of the minor and the minor:
(1) Possesses it in violation of G.S. 14-269.2(b);
(2) Exhibits it in a public place in a careless, angry, or threatening manner;
(3) Causes personal injury or death with it not in self defense; or
(4) Uses it in the commission of a crime.
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