Tennessee crime

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, defines "firearm hold agreement" as a private transaction between a licensed federal firearms dealer and a firearm owner under which the dealer takes possession of the owner’s firearm at the owner's request, holds the firearm for an agreed period of time, and then returns the firearm; states that a person does not have a cause of action against a licensed federal firearms dealer for any act or omission arising from a firearm hold agreement and resulting in personal injury or death of any natural person unless the action was the result of unlawful conduct by the licensed federal firearms dealer.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires a defendant, prior to entering a guilty plea for a domestic violence offense, to sign a domestic violence offense firearm notification form stating the requirements of lawful dispossession, to be developed by the administrative office of the courts.

The adopted House amendment replaces the dispossession affidavit with a notification form signed before a domestic-violence guilty plea. The relationship concerns communicating firearm-dispossession requirements.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill and replaces the affidavit of firearms dispossession form with a domestic violence offense firearms notification form, to be developed by the administrative office of the courts, which form a defendant charged with a domestic violence offense will be required to sign before a court may accept a guilty plea from such defendant.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for illegally transferring a firearm to a minor from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony and requires that an adult who is convicted be punished as criminally responsible for any resulting crime; creates the Class D felony of inducing or coercing a minor to commit theft of a firearm or robbery or burglary involving theft of a firearm.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the Class C felony of knowingly inducing or coercing a minor under 18 to commit theft of a firearm or a robbery or burglary offense involving theft of a firearm from a residence or motor vehicle.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, makes a person who illegally transfers a firearm to a minor criminally responsible for any resulting act of mass violence or a threat of mass violence in which the minor threatens to use the firearm.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class D felony offense for an adult criminal gang member who induces or coerces a minor to steal a firearm; makes the adult criminal gang member criminally responsible for offenses the minor commits with stolen firearm.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates the Class D felony of knowingly inducing or coercing a minor under 18 to commit theft of a firearm or a robbery or burglary offense involving theft of a firearm.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires certain departments to create programs to reduce gun violence in communities, including a youth employment program, violence intervention program, and firearm buyback program; requires the department of health to submit a quarterly report to the legislature and counties and municipalities on the effects of gun violence in communities.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits law enforcement agencies from participating in firearms buyback programs that do not offer 75 percent or more of fair market value for firearm being surrendered; authorizes law enforcement agencies to accept donations to provide incentives for individuals to participate in firearm safety training.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits the possession of an assault weapon; directs those in possession of an assault weapon before July 1, 2025, to apply for a certificate of possession; creates the Class E felony offense of purchasing, selling, possessing, or using a part, component, device, or attachment designed to accelerate the fire of a semiautomatic rifle and makes any semiautomatic rifle that includes an accelerated fire part, component, or device a prohibited weapon.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires a gun dealer to ensure that three days have passed since the transaction was initiated by the purchaser before transferring a firearm to a purchaser if the purchaser is older than 17 but younger than 21.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts "MaKayla's Law," which amends the offense of reckless endangerment to specifically include a person's reckless failure to render inoperable or safely secure or lock a firearm, resulting in a child under 13 gaining possession of the firearm and injuring or killing the child or another.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor for recklessly storing a firearm in a manner that a person knows or reasonably should know will allow a child younger than 18 years of age to access the firearm and the child brings the firearm to a school.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits the sale of firearms to persons under 21 years of age; classifies the sale or attempted sale of a firearm to a person under 21 years of age as a Class A misdemeanor.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires a gun dealer to ensure that 14 days have passed since the transaction was initiated by the purchaser before transferring a firearm to a purchaser.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates an offense for a person to possess or manufacture an ammunition feeding device that has capacity to accept more than 10 rounds, unless certain circumstances apply.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits the possession of an assault weapon; makes it a Class E felony to illegally possess an assault weapon; directs those in possession of an assault weapon before July 1, 2024, to apply for a certificate of possession; requires the department of safety to create a certificate of possession.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, imposes an additional 15-percent tax on the retail sale of firearms; requires revenue from the firearms tax to be deposited into the K-12 mental health counselor fund to be administered by the department of education and used exclusively to provide school counselors in elementary and secondary public schools and public charter schools in this state and for mental health assessments and services for students pursuant to a school counselor's referral.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts "MaKayla's Law," which expands the offense of reckless endangerment to include a person's reckless failure to render inoperable or safely secure or lock a firearm, resulting in a child under 13 gaining possession of the firearm and injuring or killing the child or another.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms Act," which creates a process for a person to file a voluntary waiver of firearm rights for the purpose of prohibiting the person from purchasing or possessing a firearm; provides for a revocation of the voluntary waiver of firearm rights; creates the offense of selling or transferring a firearm to a person who has executed a voluntary waiver of firearm rights form that has not been revoked.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits the sale or purchase of an assault weapon as a Class A misdemeanor; defines assault weapon.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates the Class E felony offense of purchasing, selling, possessing, or using a part, component, device, or attachment designed to accelerate the fire of a semi-automatic rifle and makes any semi-automatic rifle that includes an accelerated fire part, component, or device a prohibited weapon.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the Class A misdemeanor of knowingly giving, selling, lending, delivering, or otherwise transferring a firearm to a person when the transferor knows or reasonably should know that the person receiving the firearm is prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm under state or federal law.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts from sales tax purchases of gun safes and gun safety devices.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor for knowingly giving, selling, lending, delivering, or otherwise transferring a firearm to a person when the transferor knows or reasonably should know that the person receiving the firearm is prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm under state or federal law.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms Act," which permits a person to voluntarily waive their firearm rights through filing a waiver with the clerk of the circuit court in the county of the person's residence; specifies procedures the clerk, TBI, and department of safety must follow upon receipt of a waiver.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows a court to issue a risk protection order upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence that a person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to the person or others if allowed to possess or purchase a firearm; authorizes a law enforcement officer to petition for the risk protection order.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the bureau to submit a quarterly report on children's deaths related to gun violence to the legislature.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the Class A misdemeanor of knowingly giving, selling, lending, delivering, or otherwise transferring a firearm to a person when the transferor knows or reasonably should know that the person receiving the firearm is prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm under state or federal law.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires a domestic assault offender who transferred possession of a firearm to a third party in order to dispossess the firearm to submit to the court an affidavit of firearms receipt in which the third party attests that the third party may lawfully possess a firearm, has received the firearm from the defendant, and accepts responsibility for possession of the firearm.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows a court to issue a risk protection order upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence that a person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to the person or others if allowed to possess or purchase a firearm; authorizes a law enforcement officer or a relative to petition for the risk protection order.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Handgun Permits - As introduced, removes the authority to issue and receive concealed handgun carry permits; authorizes a person who holds a concealed handgun carry permit on June 30, 2023, to apply to convert the permit to an enhanced handgun carry permit.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires, subject to certain exemptions, that a sale or transfer of a firearm be done through a federally licensed gun dealer; creates a Class B misdemeanor offense for sales or transfers that are not conducted through a gun dealer.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, encourages lawful owners and possessors of firearms to store guns safely in a locked compartment; with a trigger locking device; or with a locked device rendering the firearm inaccessible to a person other than the owner or person in lawful possession of the firearm and immovable from the stored location.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Criminal Procedure - As introduced, establishes a process for law enforcement to petition a circuit court for a temporary mental health order of protection for a person who poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to themselves or others by having a firearm.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Criminal Procedure - As introduced, establishes a process for law enforcement to petition a circuit court for a temporary mental health order of protection for a person who poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to themselves others by having a firearm.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows a court to issue a risk protection order upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence that a person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to the person or others if allowed to possess or purchase a firearm; authorizes a law enforcement officer to petition for the risk protection order.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires a person who purchases a firearm, or who applies for a permit to carry a handgun either openly or concealed, to sign an affidavit on a form prescribed by the department of safety affirming that the applicant will, while not lawfully carrying the firearm, store the firearm in a locked compartment; with a trigger locking device; or with a locked device rendering the firearm inaccessible to a person other than the owner or person in lawful possession of the firearm and immovable from the stored location; requires a firearm stored in a vehicle to be stored out of plain sight.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires a domestic assault offender who transferred possession of a firearm to a third party in order to dispossess the firearm to submit to the court an affidavit of firearms receipt in which the third party attests that the third party may lawfully possess a firearm, has received the firearm from the defendant, and accepts responsibility for possession of the firearm.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of possessing a firearm if a person has a prior conviction of stalking.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, expands the definition of a law enforcement officer to include retired law enforcement officers who are carrying a firearm pursuant to certain state laws for purposes of when a law enforcement officer may carry a firearm.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, expands employees allowed to carry a handgun on property owned, operated, or controlled by a public institution of higher education to include retired law enforcement officers who retired in good standing with 20 years of service and are employed on a part-time basis by a public institution of higher education.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates the Class C misdemeanor offense of storing a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle while the person is not in the motor vehicle unless the firearm or firearm ammunition is kept from ordinary observation and locked within the trunk, utility or glove box, or a locked container securely affixed to the motor vehicle; requires the owner of a firearm to report the loss or theft of the firearm to law enforcement within 24 hours of the discovery of the loss or theft.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, authorizes local governments to regulate the storage of a firearm in a motor vehicle when the motor vehicle is unoccupied; applies in counties having a population greater than 98,800, according to the 2020 or a subsequent federal census.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires clerks of court to collect and report a finding that a person is incompetent to stand trial in a criminal proceeding to the federal bureau of investigation and department of safety; prohibits the purchase or possession of a firearm by a person who has been adjudicated as a mental defective, including a person who has been found incompetent to stand trial in a criminal proceeding.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates a Class E felony that is committed when a person provides to a gun dealer or private seller of firearms what the person knows to be materially false information with intent to deceive the dealer or seller about the legality of a transfer of a firearm; creates a Class E felony that is committed when a person knowingly obtains a firearm for the purposes of transferring the firearm to another who is prohibited from receiving or possessing a firearm by state or federal law.

The official record directly regulates firearms or addresses shootings, firearm safety, trafficking, or gun-violence prevention. It does not establish an effect on Tennessee's firearm mortality rate.

Retained Tennessee evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates the offense of storing a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle or boat while the person is not in the motor vehicle or boat unless the firearm or firearm ammunition is kept from ordinary observation and locked within the trunk, utility or glove box, or a locked container securely affixed to the motor vehicle or boat; requires the owner of a firearm to report the loss or theft of the firearm to law enforcement within 24 hours of the discovery of the loss or theft.