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17 Philly children and teens shot themselves last year. CHOP’s new gun lock program aims to reverse the trend.

Doctors at CHOP and beyond are working to expand education about safe firearm storage as suicide rises among adolescents and as guns are now the leading cause of death for American children.

CHOP doctors Dorothy Novick and Joel Fein hold gun locks available at the CHOP Roberts Center for Pediatric Research in Philadelphia.
CHOP doctors Dorothy Novick and Joel Fein hold gun locks available at the CHOP Roberts Center for Pediatric Research in Philadelphia.Read moreJose F. Moreno / Staff Photographer