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Child Access Prevention Laws aim at reducing suicides, mass shootings, violent crime, and unintentional gun related injuries and deaths.

There is a wide spectrum of Child Access Prevention laws. There most stringent involve criminal liability for a child's access to a negligently stored firearm. The weakest involves prohibitions to the direct provision of firearms to minors. Other laws include States Imposing Criminal Liability for Allowing a Child to Gain Access, Criminal Liability Only if Child Uses or Possesses the Firearm, Criminal Liability for Negligent Storage of Unloaded Firearms, Preventing Persons from Intentionally, Knowingly and/or Recklessly Providing Firearms to Minors. Furthermore, the laws vary in their scope in terms of firearms, and also in their definition of 'minor'.

http://leg.wa.gov/Senate/Committees/LAW/Documents/SummaryOfStateChildAccessPreventionLaws.pdf

There have been numerous studies investigating the efficacy of Child Access Prevention laws, in their varying forms, on suicide, mass shooting, violent crime, and unintentional gun related injuries and deaths. Also possible effects on defensive gun use, officer-involved shootings, gun industry outcomes, and hunting and recreation.. Cummings et al. (1997a), Webster et al. (2004), Gius (2015b), looked into effects on total suicide and found some evidence that Child Access Prevention Laws reduce suicides among youth. Their results also suggest a reduction in unintentional firearm injuries and deaths among youth. When it comes to the effect of Child Prevention laws on mass shootings and violent crime, research has been inconclusive. Lott (2003) found the effect on casualties and incidents to be uncertain. Research by Lott & Whitley (2001)on effects on violent crime is also inconclusive. These results prompt the need for further research in these areas.

https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/child-access-prevention.html

Cummings, P., D. C. Grossman, F. P. Rivara, and T. D. Koepsell, “State Gun Safe Storage Laws and Child Mortality Due to Firearms,” JAMA, Vol. 278, No. 13, 1997a, pp. 1084–1086.

Webster, Daniel W., and Marc Starnes, “Reexamining the Association Between Child Access Prevention Gun Laws and Unintentional Shooting Deaths of Children,” Pediatrics, Vol. 106, No. 6, 2000, pp. 1466–1469.

Gius, Mark, “The Impact of Minimum Age and Child Access Prevention Laws on Firearm-Related Youth Suicides and Unintentional Deaths,” Social Science Journal, Vol. 52, No. 2, 2015b, pp. 168–175.

Lott, John R., Jr., and John E. Whitley, “Safe-Storage Gun Laws: Accidental Deaths, Suicides, and Crime,” Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 44, No. 2, 2001, pp. 659–689.

Lott, John R., Jr., The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything You’ve Heard About Gun Control Is Wrong, Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2003.