{
  "id": 1347141,
  "title": "Brief firearm safety talks more than double openness to out-of-home storage",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/16/brief-firearm-safety-talks-more-than-double-openness-to-out-of-home",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-16T20:40:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-firearm-safety-home-storage.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A brief conversation on firearm safety could significantly boost gun owners' willingness to store their firearms outside the home during emergencies, a Rutgers-led study reveals. Project Safe Guard, a 15-minute intervention, more than doubled the proportion of participants who were initially opposed to out-of-home firearm storage and later became open to the idea.",
  "summary": "A brief chat about firearm safety can sharply increase willingness among gun owners to consider temporarily storing their firearms outside the home during times of crisis, a step that could help reduce suicide risk, according to a Rutgers-led study.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}