Posted June 19, 2019 7:00 am by Comments

By Daniel Terrill

(Photo: NSSF)
The National Shooting Sports Foundation is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Project ChildSafe, an initiative to promote safe and responsible storage of firearms. While the program boils down to simply giving away free gun locks and educational materials, NSSF President Joe Bartozzi said the effort has shown “tremendous” results.
“We’ve gotten the reports from the National Safety Council which indicate in the last 20 years accidental fatalities from firearms has declined 50 percent,” Bartozzi said. He clarified, however, that spreading the message about gun safety was a collaborative effort.
Bartozzi explained Project ChildSafe has recruited more than 15,500 law enforcement and community partners across the country. By developing these relationships, they’ve been able to distribute some 38 million gun locks. “The point of Project ChildSafe has been from the beginning — now of course 20 years and still going — has been about saving lives,” he said.
Bartozzi credits the program’s success to understanding guns and gun owners. The Connecticut-based NSSF has since 1961 been the trade association for the gun and shooting sports industries.
“When we talk about gun safety, we talk about it from the perspective that we absolutely respect and support the Second Amendment. We absolutely support and respect the

Source: Guns.com

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