About 3 in 4 5-14-year-olds with gun owning parents know where they are stored and more than 1 in 5 have handled a gun in the home without parental knowledge. An estimated 4.6 million children live in homes with at least one unlocked and loaded gun and most know where they are kept. ![]() A third of households with children have a gun and nearly half of gun-owning households with children fail to store firearms safely. Many children live in homes with loaded, unlocked guns and know where they are.For every time a gun in the home injures or kills in self-defense there are 11 completed and attempted gun suicides, seven criminal assaults and homicides and four unintentional shooting deaths or injuries. ![]() A gun in the home makes the likelihood of homicide three times higher, suicide three to five times higher, and accidental death four times higher.
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