Florida Firearms Academy is hosting free kids firearm safety classes.

  • Florida Firearms Academy hosts kids safety classes
  • The free classes are held once a month
  • Classes are meant to teach kids gun safety, responsibility

According to a report by the Associated Press and USA Today, a child dies from an accidental shooting every other day in the United States.

Most recently in the Bay Area, four-year-old Ashton Gooding fatally shot himself in July after coming across a loaded gun in his mother’s Tampa home.

"If they just come across them and don’t know much about them, just from video games and movies, they are going to pick it up, play with it and next think you know they are going to hurt themselves or someone else,” Thomas King, Owner of Florida Firearms Academy, said.

About a dozen children and their parents spent two hours at the academy on Sunday, learning gun laws and how to load, hold, aim and shoot firearms.

"It’s just this big boom, like once you hit a trigger it goes boom!” eight-year-old Kaya Leith said.

"I think it’s important to teach safety with children,” Jeff Schlotterbeck, whose nine-year-old son Caden took the class, said. “We have a firearm that’s locked up at home and something that we want him to be responsible with and smart about and know what not to do."

Florida Firearms Academy holds the free kids class once a month.