Report: Weapons were leading cause of death for Alabama children in 2024

By: Anna Barrett

Outlets: Alabama Reflector

Published: June 23, 2026

Words: 1,303

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Key points

Weapons, nearly all of them firearms, were the leading cause of non-medical, unexpected or unexplained child deaths in Alabama in 2024.
About a third of those deaths involved a firearm not safely stored away.
Alabama does not have a safe gun storage law, and efforts to pass one in recent years have failed.

Weapons were the leading cause of “non-medical, unexpected or unexplained” deaths …

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