More than half of US gun owners store at least one firearm without any locks, survey reveals

More than half of U.S. gun owners store at least one firearm without any locks or other measures to prevent its theft or use by an unauthorized person, according to the first study in more than two decades to ask owners about weapons storage.

The remaining 46 percent of gun owners who responded to the survey said they kept all their weapons locked in a gun safe, case or cabinet, or inactivated their weapon with a trigger lock.

Among gun owners with children younger than 18 living at home, rates of safe storage were a bit higher. But 45 percent of these gun owners said they keep at least one firearm in an unsecured state, and 10 percent said they store