This act also creates the offense of community endangerment due to unsafe storage of a firearm in the second degree in which a person commits such offense if he or she stores or leaves a firearm in a location where the person knows or reasonably should know that an unauthorized person may gain access to the firearm and such person:

  Causes the firearm to discharge;

  Carries the firearm in a public place in a manner that is threatening; or

  Uses the firearm in the commission of a crime.

Such offense shall be a class D felony.

It shall not be a violation of either offense if the firearm is stored in a secure storage location, the unauthorized person is a minor who has the permission of a parent or guardian to possess the firearm, the unauthorized person obtains the firearm in self-defense, or the unauthorized person obtains the firearm as a result of unlawful entry and such unlawful entry is reported to a law enforcement agency.

ERIC VANDER WEERD