Posted March 22, 2017 4:20 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

A recently released statistical report on unintentional injuries produced by the National Safety Council found that fatal accidental gun deaths are at the lowest levels since data has been collected.
The Council, chartered by Congress in 1953, released their 2017 Injury Facts edition which found that, while deaths due to prescription drug abuse continue to rise, those from accidental gunshots continue to fall. As noted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the number of deaths due to fatal firearm accidents fell some 17 percent between 2014 and 2015, the lowest since record keeping began.
Safety programs aimed at curbing gun accidents have been on the rise over the past several generations.
While a number of states instituted firearms safety programs via hunters education classes back in the 1950s, the federal government authorized funding for such initiatives in 1970 as part of the Pittman-Robertson Act. Such programs have been cited by conservation officials when observing historic declines in gun accidents in the field during hunting seasons.
The basic gun safety rules as advocated by the National Rifle Association are mentioned at least as far back as Jeff Cooper’s The Complete Book of Modern Handgunning in 1961. The gun rights group has also backed their Eddie

Source: Guns.com

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