Super Bowl champ Ed McCaffrey a 'big believer' in safe gun ownership, gives advice on responsible handling

Ed McCaffrey won't beryllium watching immoderate of his kids successful the Super Bowl arsenic helium did past twelvemonth with lad Christian, but helium inactive made the travel to New Orleans for a peculiar cause.

The three-time Super Bowl champion precocious partnered with Colt to dispersed consciousness astir liable weapon ownership.

"I’m a constituent of firearm safety. If you’re going to workout your close to ain a firearm, you ought to bash it safely and responsibly. That’s wherefore I partnered with Colt," McCaffrey said successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital.

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Denver Broncos wide receiver Ed McCaffrey (87) jets past Atlanta Falcons linebacker Jessie Tuggle (58) during the Super Bowl, a 34-19 Broncos triumph implicit the Atlanta Falcons Jan. 31, 1999, astatine Pro Player Stadium successful Miami, Fla.  (E. Bakke/Getty Images)

Clay Matthews, Fletcher Cox, Adam Vinatieri and Joe Thomas were nominated for Colt's Safety Impact Award, and Matthews won it. McCaffrey said it was "incredible" to beryllium a portion of the run with immoderate NFL legends.

"So galore players, adjacent those that I’ve coached, ain firearms," the erstwhile Denver Bronco said. "Colorado, large hunting state, large outdoors state. Access to antithetic states is different. But everybody should bid decently and cognize however to grip a firearm responsibly if they’re going to workout their close to ain them. I’m a large believer successful them, and I deliberation radical whitethorn beryllium amazed astatine however galore radical ain firearms. 

SiriusXM big Ed McCaffrey and NFL moving backmost Christian McCaffrey of the Carolina Panthers airs for photos during SiriusXM astatine Super Bowl LIV Jan. 30, 2020, successful Miami, Fla.  (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

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"They are a close to own. A batch of hunters ain them. People ain them for protection. Whatever your reasoning, if you’re going to ain one, you person to larn however to run them safely and responsibly. You beryllium it to yourself and friends and family. That’s wherefore I’m truly impressed with what Colt is doing. They’ve spent a batch of clip and wealth to make consciousness to let weapon owners and firearm owners to beryllium harmless and responsible."

Colt is besides giving distant $100,000 if determination is simply a safety successful the Super Bowl Sunday.

McCaffrey besides has proposal for those who ain oregon privation to ain guns.

Denver Broncos receiver Ed McCaffrey connected the sideline against the Kansas City Chiefs astatine Mile High Stadium. (Peter Brouillet/USA Today NETWORK)

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"Take a people connected weapon safety. I would recommend, if you’re a first-time proprietor of a firearm, instrumentality a course. … Don’t conscionable perceive to a mates of tips from your buddy. Take a course, beryllium responsible," McCaffrey said.

He compared the process of learning liable weapon ownership to learning shot astatine a young age.

"In football, I went to camps and clinics that taught maine however to play the game," helium said. "If you’re going to ain a firearm, you request to spell instrumentality a people and get your licence and marque definite you’re speechmaking everything connected however to decently run a firearm."

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