Study on ‘Unsecured Guns’ Includes Incidents Not Related to ‘Unsecured Guns’

By Ammoland

By AWR Hawkins

Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)- On May 4 2015, Everytown for Gun Safety released a study on children who find and shoot others with guns that are “unsecured” or improperly stored.

Problem : the study includes injuries that have nothing to do with “unsecured guns.”

For example, the study includes an incident that took place in the state of Vermont while a boy was target shooting with his father. Everytown’s summary for the incident is as follows:

A six-year-old boy was target shooting with his father in their backyard when his pistol jammed, he lowered the gun to waist level, and it discharged, hitting him in the lower leg. His father took him to a local hospital, where he was treated for non-life threatening injuries.

That incident has zero to do with an unsecured gun. It’s a father and son enjoying time together when an accident occurred, and it was an accident with non-life threatening injuries.

But there’s more. Another incident in the study was of an 8-year-old who was struck by a bullet that ricocheted and hit him in the chest while he was target shooting with his …read more

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