Department of Pediatrics

Researchers survey firearms owners on ways to protect kids from gun violence

Written by Wyoming Public Media | October 16, 2024

About 4 million kids live in households with easy access to firearms. That concerns Maya Haasz, a pediatric emergency physician at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and a firearm researcher. …. “What I really want to find is ways that we could keep kids safer when they’re living in households with firearms,” she said, “and just a way to have that conversation with families about how to keep kids safe around their firearms.”