i know your husband is training to be a police officer. yes. while he was in the police academy he had a gun in the house for a full year. reporter: did your kids know where the gun was? no. reporter: she s sure nine-year-old nevada will know exactly what to do. she s sort of the rule follower kind of kid? absolutely. reporter: but she s not so sure about 7-year-old luke. he s the middle child. he s very outgoing. he s kind of the ham of the family. reporter: before we test luke and nevada we send them to a gun safety class with our expert, dr. miltenberger. the kids call him dr. ray. first? stop and don t touch. stop and don t touch. reporter: dr. ray talks them through the safety steps- and they repeat the lesson with ease. what should you do? stop, don t touch, run away. where you gonna run to? to your parents. to your parents, it doesn t matter where they are. reporter: now at the university of south florida, with the help of dr. ray and one of h
i think that s the main thing with teens, is that they re at an age where peer pressure is really big. reporter: dr. miltenberger suggests the best way to teach gun safety to teens is to act out a scene just like what jordan went through. i would create scenarios in which a peer is trying to pressure them into touching a gun or playing with a gun. and and they learn to act assertively and refuse that. and and actually try to get the peer to put it away. and and if the peer wouldn t, to go so far as to leave. reporter: he warns parents these are tough lessons to make stick, so start when kids are young. stop and don t touch it. reporter: little kids, that s who we ll be testing next. we ve got siblings and friends, kids ages five to 9 years-old. no actors this time just toys, candy and a very real looking gun. coming up, these kids just had
while he was in the police academy he had a gun in the house for a full year. reporter: did your kids know where the gun was? no. reporter: she s sure nine-year-old nevada will know exactly what to do. she s sort of the rule follower kind of kid? absolutely. reporter: but she s not so sure about 7-year-old luke. he s the middle child. he s very outgoing. he s kind of the ham of the family. reporter: before we test luke and nevada we send them to a gun safety class with our expert, dr. miltenberger. the kids call him dr. ray. first? stop and don t touch. stop and don t touch. reporter: dr. ray talks them through the safety steps- and they repeat the lesson with ease. what should you do? stop, don t touch, run away. where you gonna run to? to your parents. to your parents, it doesn t matter where they are. reporter: now at the university of south florida, with the help of dr. ray and one of his research assistants, the kids are about to be tested. this t
each child s death is tragic, and all of them are preventable. no child deserves to be taken like this. reporter: while the gun issue is incredibly divisive, what is not debated is that everyone wants to keep children safe. and that s our goal tonight. to show parents the best way to teach kids gun safety from children as young as 5 to teenagers. yo, yo. reporter: we ve enlisted the help of dr. ray miltenberger, a professor at the university of south florida and a leading researcher of gun injury prevention. you see a gun, what do you do? reporter: dr. miltenberger believes the first step to keeping kids safe is to store guns locked and hidden. the second is to teach the kids the skills for the one time that some adult will not store the gun safely. reporter: and if you re a parent who believes my kids would never touch a gun without my permission, what would happen
really big. reporter: dr. miltenberger suggests the best way to teach gun safety to teens is to act out a scene just like what jordan went through. i would create scenarios in which a peer is trying to pressure them into touching a gun or playing with a gun. and and they learn to act assertively and refuse that. and and actually try to get the peer to put it away. and and if the peer wouldn t, to go so far as to leave. reporter: he warns parents these are tough lessons to make stick, so start when kids are young. stop and don t touch it. reporter: little kids, that s who we ll be testing next. we ve got siblings and friends, kids ages five to 9 years-old. no actors this time just toys, candy and a very real looking gun. coming up, these kids just had