TABLE 4.

Representative quotes related to strategies to address liability and increase storage accessibility for voluntary, temporary firearm storage, by stakeholder type

	Firearm ranges/retailers	LEAs	Organization
Informal	“…it would be nice to learn from other FFLs [licensed firearm retailers] that are doing this [voluntary firearm storage], how they are managing it. So, sharing in that network, I can learn from somebody else and then I can share with some of my more open‐minded [colleagues].” (Washington range/retailer)	“Now, there may be work‐around around that, for example if a business, any business, it'd be like a self‐storage storage unit, you can, you rent the storage unit from whoever and what you put in that is up to you… there would actually be less scrutiny… I come to your business, I am going to rent locker number one from you for X amount of dollars per month. I put my lock on it, you have no idea what's in there… I could put guns in there, I could put valuables in there that I didn't want it my house or something, the renter could put anything in there. That would be a way of kind of circumventing the law, if you will.” (Colorado LEA)	“There's a way, a roundabout way of separating the person from their firearms, you know, during that time, for a minute, where it's not invasive. Especially if they know and trust you as a gunowner, as well, and sometimes you just, you know, need to ‘clean the gun’. So, that's a little trick.” (Firearm organization)
Policy	“I would like some kind of legal protection that would say okay, it's like if I don't have the recourse to transfer back to them, that I have some means of disposing of the firearm or taking possession or compensating the person…or what would I do in that circumstance, when they try to get it back and they're no longer legally allowed to do so.” (Washington firearm range/retailer)	“I want to make sure they're a part of our community. I don't just want random people dropping off guns here. They need to tell us what's up. We usually grab their ID from them, fill out an evidence custody form, and talk to them about when they're going to be back. We can do clearances through CBI to give it back to them without a fee to us for law enforcement purposes. We can do that background check here through dispatch.” (Colorado LEA)	“[A storage law may say] You shall store that for 14 calendar days … What that does is it cuts a little bit of the nuances and it makes it easier for the business to say, ‘Hey, no, it's the law.’ They can blame the law… at the end of that two weeks, absent a court order… they have to give the firearm back, right?… But, you know, if they created a safe storage law for, for gun dealers, there would be pushback because how are they going to store these right.” (Public health organization)
Engagement	“If it just kind of said like, ‘Oh, hey, sure. Here's the voluntary temporary storage,’ and it didn't say like suicide question mark on, at the top. These people would notice it and people would see like, ‘Oh, what's this temporary voluntary storage program?’ They might see that, and they might say, ‘Oh. Oh, I get it.’ That's for people, maybe I know someone like that, who maybe they could put their gun away for a couple months… Even if people don't think of it for themselves, I mean, it's still probably effective for them to think of it for other people or their family or something.” (Washington firearm range/retailer)	“The pros and the cons can be discussed. But I think it all starts with having a person or persons or a team who is directly engaged and involved with this and a supporter of the program who takes that in a very positive light and a positive form of this is the benefits, these the abilities that we can – the things that we can do to mitigate issues or future issues from happening. So, I think it starts with those folks going to the surrounding law enforcement executives.” (Colorado LEA)	“‘Hey, man, I know you're going through a lot, the divorce is crazy. The last thing you need to do, too, is clean your damn guns. Now, let me clean your guns, let's have some drinks, let's chill, let's talk about whatever‐whatever.’ Or insert drinks for, you know, whatever, ‘Let's hit the gym,’ whatever‐whatever. But that's a good way to kind of do it in a nonabrasive, non‐overreaching… the person doesn't feel like you're ratting them out, the person doesn't feel like you're cutting into their freedoms, you know?” (Firearm organization)