Fay Brake co-owner of EJB's Gun Shop shows a pistol to customers at the store in Capitol Heights, Maryland, March 14, 2023. Andrew Caballero-reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

A new study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics found that over 7,000 more children died from firearm-related injuries in the years following a 2010 Supreme Court decision that gave states greater power to set their own gun laws. Most of those deaths occurred in states that opted to make it easier to purchase and carry firearms.

The study, led by Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency medicine doctor with Mass General Brigham, found a sharp increase in gun-related deaths among children and teens ages 0 to 17 beginning in 2011, following the 2010 McDonald v. Chicago decision , which ruled that the Second Amendment's right

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