2011 Connecticut Code
Title 53a Penal Code
Chapter 952 Penal Code: Offenses
Sec. 53a-217a. Criminally negligent storage of a firearm: Class D felony.

      Sec. 53a-217a. Criminally negligent storage of a firearm: Class D felony. (a) A person is guilty of criminally negligent storage of a firearm when he violates the provisions of section 29-37i and a minor obtains the firearm and causes the injury or death of himself or any other person. For the purposes of this section, "minor" means any person under the age of sixteen years.

      (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply if the minor obtains the firearm as a result of an unlawful entry to any premises by any person.

      (c) Criminally negligent storage of a firearm is a class D felony.

      (P.A. 90-144, S. 2.)

      History: (Revisor's note: In codifying public act 90-144 the internal reference in Subsec. (a) to "section 29-37c" was changed editorially by the Revisors to "section 29-37i" for accuracy).

      Section not vague as applied to defendant's conduct; he cannot mount a facial challenge to the statute. 242 C. 211.

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