Gun Owners' Action League
The Official Firearms Association of Massachusetts

"Protecting Your Freedom Begins Here"

P.O. Box 567  Northboro, MA   ph: 508-393-5333   fax:508-393-5222

"The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self defense in the home."

 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice J. Scalia, June 26, 2008

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Great News for Kids & Gun Safety

The National Safety Council reported that in 1999 there was a 53% REDUCTION in accidents with a firearm in the last ten years.

This news is especially good when it comes to kids. The same report places children ages 14 and under at a firearm accident mortality rate of 0.39 per day. While that number is still too high, it is a figure groups that have taken part in the Eddie Eagle GunSafe® program can be very proud of and will continue to work to reduce.

In percentages, children aged 14 and under killed in a firearms accident only accounted for 0.49% of all firearms related deaths in 1999. In that same year, accidents of any age only accounted for 2.42% firearms deaths.

The most serious issues still continue to be CRIME and SUICIDES that accounted for approximately 28,174, or 97.58% of all firearm related deaths in 1999.

 

Other Accidental Death Rates of Children 14 and Under

Motor Vehicle

7.7 per day

Drowning

2.5 per day

Fires

1.7 per day

Mechanical Suffocation

.47 per day