2017 Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
CHAPTER 5. SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Subchapter VII Offenses Against Public Health, Order and Decency
§ 1456. Unlawfully permitting a minor access to a firearm; class A misdemeanor.
(a) A person is guilty of unlawfully permitting a minor access to a firearm when the person intentionally or recklessly stores or leaves a loaded firearm within the reach or easy access of a minor and where the minor obtains the firearm and uses it to inflict serious physical injury or death upon the minor or any other person.
(b) It shall be an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this section if:
(1) The firearm was stored in a locked box or container or in a location which a reasonable person would have believed to be secure from access to a minor; or
(2) The minor obtains the firearm as the result of an unlawful entry by any person; or
(3) The serious physical injuries or death to the minor or any other person results from a target or sport shooting accident or hunting accident.
(c) Unlawfully permitting a minor access to a firearm is a class A misdemeanor.
69 Del. Laws, c. 360, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.;
