The class
Six lessons for the people in a home.
Short readings built from quoted public sources, with what each line means at home and three questions at the end. About 35 minutes in all. Your progress is kept only in this browser.
Not a certified class. It does not satisfy any permit, license, carry, purchase or hunter-education requirement, and it is not legal or medical advice.
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Lesson 1 · 6 min · Check passed
The rules in every hand
Before storage, before children, before travel: the handling rules that everyone in a home with firearms should be able to say from memory.
Sources: NRA, Project ChildSafe (NSSF)
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Lesson 2 · 7 min · Check passed
Locked, unloaded, ammunition apart
Pediatricians and the firearm industry's own safety program say the same three things about a firearm that is not in use, and the CDC adds that hiding it is not storing it.
Sources: AAP, Project ChildSafe (NSSF), CDC
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Lesson 3 · 5 min · Check passed
Who holds the keys
A lock is only as good as the person who can open it. And a firearm is stored somewhere every minute it is not in use: the car and the garage count too.
Sources: AAP, NRA
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Lesson 4 · 6 min · Check passed
Children, visits and one question
Children are curious, and many unintentional shootings of children happen in someone else's home. Two things help: storage everywhere they play, and a question before they go.
Sources: AAP, Project ChildSafe (NSSF)
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Lesson 5 · 6 min · Check passed
When someone is struggling
More than half of U.S. firearm deaths are suicides (CDC, 2022 data). Time and distance between a person in crisis and a firearm can matter. This lesson is facts and phone numbers, not treatment.
Sources: CDC, AAP, 988 Lifeline, Veterans Crisis Line
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Lesson 6 · 5 min · Check passed
On the road and after the range
The moments a firearm leaves storage and comes back are where routines slip. The federal airport rules are short; local and state laws are not part of this class.
Sources: Project ChildSafe (NSSF), AAP, NRA, TSA