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Los Angeles County to offer free gun locks

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Gun locks on display during a press conference on Wednesday, Dec 6, 2023, in Mission Hills to announce Providence Holy Cross Medical Center will be giving free gun locking devices to employees at the hospital. (Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is announcing an initiative to make tens of thousands of guns in the county safer.

On Tuesday, the department plans to announce the distribution of 60,000 free gun locks in an event at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Downey.


The locks will be available for free, no questions asked, officials said in a news release.

“The distribution is part of an initiative to keep adults and especially children safe from gun violence in the home,” DPH added.

Initially, the locks will be available at six medical facilities:

“Later this year, free gun safety locks will also be made available at Los Angeles County libraries,” Public Health said.