https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200110093515.htm

What the participants reported emphasizes the need for these public gun safety events, Seattle Children's and University of Washington researchers say, because 40% of gun owners at the events reported having at least one firearm in their home that was not locked up. In addition, 39% of survey takers indicated they kept a loaded gun at home, and 14% stored all guns unlocked and loaded.

"Even in this population, which clearly had some interest in or awareness of firearm safety, there was a high prevalence of unlocked firearms," said lead author Aisha King, who worked on the study while a graduate student at the UW's School of Public Health and as an intern with Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center's INSIGHT summer research program.