4.6 million US children live in homes with a loaded and unlocked firearm

Data from the HICRC 2015 National Firearm Survey show that in 21% of gun owning households with children, at least one gun is stored loaded and unlocked.  This is a far higher number of children exposed to unsafe storage than reported at the beginning of this century. The article, “Firearm storage in gun-owning households with children: results of a 2015 survey” by Deborah Azrael, Matthew Miller and others appears in the Journal of Urban Health epub ahead of publication.