My child received training telling them not to approach or play with a gun. Is that enough to keep them safe?

One study found that young children who go through a week-long gun safety training are just as likely as children with no training to approach or play with a handgun when they find one.¹Marjorie S. Hardy, “Teaching Firearm Safety to Children: Failure of a Program,” Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics  23, no. 2 (April 2002): 71–76, https://doi.org/10.1097/00004703-200204000-00002. Research also shows that the majority of children in gun-owning households know where the guns are stored, even when parents think they do not.²Frances Baxley and Matthew Miller, “Parental Misperceptions About Children and Firearms,” Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 160, no. 5 (2006): 542–47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.160.5.542. This is why it is always an adult’s responsibility to make sure children are never in the presence of unsecured guns.