From 2013 to 2022, the portion of Washington adults who reported storing their household firearms securely rose from 34.9% to 48.8%, according to a University of Washington School of Medicine study.
“This is good news,” said lead author Kelsey Conrick, a postdoctoral scholar at the Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program. “There is still a lot of room for improvement, but our state’s efforts to promote secure firearm storage appear to be working.”
The study claims that past research has associated secure firearm storage, such as storing them unloaded and locked, with reductions in suicide, unintentional injuries, and gun theft…