Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s announcement follows years of recommendations by top health officials to view firearm deaths through the lens of health rather than politics.
Firearms often are not stored safely in U.S. homes, a federal survey found. At the same time, gun-related suicides and injuries to children are on the rise.
A handgun kept in a portable case with biometric fingerprint access. Gun storage practices vary, but in a new survey about half of gun owners with loaded firearms at home did not lock them away.
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