Mandatory gun insurance before lawmakers in 4 states

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Lawmakers in four states are considering measures that would require gun owners to maintain liability insurance or face a fine of up to $10,000.

Current gun liability insurance efforts are underway in Hawaii, New Hampshire, New York and Los Angeles. The measures are similar to one introduced last year in Congress by Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-NY. Maloney's bill, the Firearm Risk Protection Act, would require proof of liability insurance before someone is allowed to purchase a gun. Failure to have the insurance could result in the fine.

"We require insurance to own a car, but no such requirement exists for guns," Maloney said at the time of the bill's introduction. "The results are clear: car fatalities have declined by 25 percent in the last decade, but gun fatalities continue to rise."

The proposal in Hawaii follows along those lines. Gun owners would be required to have insurance for their firearms and renew their registration every five years, under the bill introduced last week by Democratic State Sen. Josh Green. Hawaii currently requires guns to be registered, but that documentation is only required once.

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