Since June of this year, we have provided families/individuals with gun locks through various channels including:
Our Sheriff’s Office provides us with the gun locks through a grant they receive.
In Ulster County we have worked with gun shop owners to help them educate their clients about gun safety. We have provided them with educational materials on prevention of suicide (reducing access to lethal means), gun safety (using gun locks, etc.), and provided other behavioral health resources to assist their clients at risk of decompensation and violence. We have made outreach to gun show organizers and have tabled at these events. We regularly provide lists of recent decedents in the County to the Sheriff. so that he can check if any of the deceased had gun permits. The guns would be removed from households that no longer had permitted gun owners. Our efforts have generally been well received.