NevadaNevada limits civil liability for dealers and police storing guns
Licensed gun dealers and local police agencies have protection from paying damages over voluntary gun storage, with exceptions for serious misconduct and known risks when owners seek their guns back.
What it does
Licensed gun dealers and local police agencies have protection from paying damages over voluntary gun storage agreements. Exceptions cover serious misconduct and knowledge of dangerous behavior or a legal gun ban when owners seek their guns back.
Argument forProtection from paying damages could encourage dealers and police agencies to offer voluntary gun storage for owners seeking to reduce suicide risks.
Argument againstPeople injured after a gun is returned could be unable to recover damages from the storage provider when no exception applies.
More detail
Licensed gun dealers and local police agencies have protection from paying damages for acts or failures to act arising from voluntary gun storage agreements. The agreement may be written or spoken. The owner must request storage, and the dealer or agency must return the gun under the agreement's terms. Protection includes injury or death after return when the agreement ends. Protection does not apply if the action arose from gross negligence, meaning extreme carelessness, or reckless or unlawful conduct by the dealer or agency. Protection also does not apply if, when the owner sought the gun back, the dealer or agency knew the owner showed behavior indicating they would use it unlawfully or harm themselves or another person, or knew the owner was legally barred from having a gun.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Jun 6Chapter 314.Latest
- Jun 5Approved by the Governor Joe Lombardo.Became Law
- May 29Enrolled and delivered to Governor.To Governor
- May 27Senate Amendment No. 608 concurred in. To enrollment.Major
- May 26In Assembly.
- May 23From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly.
- May 22Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. Preamble adopted. (Yeas: 16, Nays: 5.) Action of passage reconsidered. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. Preamble adopted. (Yeas: 15, Nays: 6.) To printer.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Senate (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded Senate (2nd Reprint) (2). Result: pass.Upper
- May 21From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 608.) Reprinting dispensed with.Minor
- Apr 28Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.Minor
- Apr 24From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To Senate. In Senate.
- Apr 22Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. Preamble adopted. (Yeas: 41, Nays: 1.) To printer.Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded Assembly (1st Reprint). Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 21Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- Apr 18From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 405.) Dispensed with reprinting.Minor
- Mar 19Notice of eligibility for exemption.
- Mar 18From printer. To committee.
- Mar 17Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer.Introduced
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