STUDY: Child Gun Deaths Are Highest In Red States

The New York Times reports:

Firearm deaths of children and teenagers rose significantly in states that enacted more permissive gun laws after the Supreme Court in 2010 limited local governments’ ability to restrict gun ownership, a new study has found. In states that maintained stricter laws, firearm deaths were stable after the ruling, the researchers reported, and in some, they even declined.

Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency room doctor at Massachusetts General Brigham Hospital in Boston, who was the study’s lead author, said he was dismayed to find that most of the children’s deaths were homicides and suicides. “It’s surprising how few of these are accidents,” Dr. Faust said.

But in the nine states with the strictest gun laws, youth firearm deaths did not increase. In four — California, Maryland, New York and Rhode Island — they dropped significantly.

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Firearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the US.

Our national @JAMAPediatrics study is live.

Findings (2011-2023):
•7,400 more deaths in most permissive and permissive firearm law states. There was
•No increase in the stricter law states.

More here:https://t.co/kqg7s6MhzB

— Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician) (@jeremyfaust) June 9, 2025