Association of Increased Safe Household Firearm Storage With Firearm Suicide and Unintentional Death Among US Youths

Importance

Firearm injury is the second leading cause of death in the United States for children and young adults. The risk of unintentional and self-inflicted firearm injury is lower when all household firearms are stored locked.

Objective

To estimate the reduction in youth firearm suicide and unintentional firearm mortality that would result if more adults in households with youth stored household guns locked.

Design,...