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Child Injury (18 and Under) No Charges Filed Oregon February 13, 2020February 22, 2020 by Gary Klein

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2020

A student at Henley High School in Klamath County, Oregon was hospitalized after an accidental shooting in the school parking lot. According to reports, two students were moving a gun …

MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2020

According to a Riverside, Ohio police sergeant, “a 3-year-old got ahold of his father’s weapon and accidentally shot himself in the leg.” The boy found the gun in a bedroom and brought it to the living room where he was playing with it when it went off. The boy’s father was home at the time.

Firearm safety is of the “utmost importance,” especially when children are in the home, the sergeant said. "If you're going to own firearms, buy a safe. Secure them, keep them unloaded if you're not going to put them in a safe. Your children are most important."

Ohio does not mandate gun locks or gun safes.

Source:

Breaking News Staff, “3-year-old Boy Playing with Gun Shoots Himself in the Leg, Riverside Police Say,” WHIO TV7 (January 13, 2020).