Posted April 8, 2016 3:50 pm by Comments

By Bob Owens

handguns

What we have here is a failure to communicate, or at least communicate honestly.

Gun owners looking for safety tips on the Web may not find what they need to know, a recent study suggests.

Most U.S. websites with information on guns do not include important guidelines on how to store guns safely and keep them out of reach of children, researchers report in the journal Injury Prevention.

“Firearm injury and death are unfortunately very common among U.S. children and adolescents,” said lead author Dr. Katherine Freundlich of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, adding that one of the contributing factors is unsafe storage of guns in the home.

Guns are common in American households, with over a third possessing at least one gun, the study team notes.

The four key storage guidelines to keep children and teens safe from guns are: (1) keeping guns locked up and (2) unloaded, (3) keeping bullets locked up and (4) in a separate location from the guns, according to the researchers.

I’d like to have my attorney address Dr. Freundlich’s claims.

If you wanted to know about the “safe storage of guns” and wanted to have the same four-part guidelines the …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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