Leaders call on all gun owners to be extra vigilant following the second shooting in the past two weeks involving an unattended gun, and a 6-year-old child.
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) – Leaders call on all gun owners to be extra vigilant following the second shooting in the past two weeks involving an unattended gun, and a 6-year-old child.
Just this past Sunday, a 6-year-old boy picked up an unguarded firearm that went off and hit a 28-year-old woman. While investigators say she will be okay, a separate but similar incident involving a unsupervised weapon, left the child dead.
“It becomes incumbent on the adults in that situation, to be thinking of all the what if’s,” said Durand Police Chief Michael Reiman. Now more than ever, law enforcement officials emphasize the key of thinking on those ‘what if’s’, when it concerns gun safety.
“It’s not just a purchase on a firearm, you have to understand what you have,”” said Stephenson County Sheriff Steve Stovall. “It’s up to you to make sure that the weapons stay safe, if you have little kids you have to understand the dos and the don’ts.”
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