GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Kent County Veterans Services will start handing out free firearm cable locks Wednesday as part of an effort to prevent suicide.
About 400 locks, the result of a donation from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, are available at the Veterans Services office on Fuller Avenue NE north of I-196.
The county said the locks are a “simple but powerful tool” to keep people in crisis from accessing a gun, saying they may allow for a “critical pause.”…