&lt;kids shooting themselves or their family&gt;<p>Realize that a lot of these press and anecdotal reports are false.  Depicting an innocent (and more importantly, <i>unprosecutable</i>) child as the shooter lets a negligent (or perp) teen or adult evade investigation and prosecution.<p>There were several stories last year about a 2-year-old finding a handgun and shooting a family member with it.  Given the hand strength and coordination of even your strongest 2-year-old, the idea that any could actually lift, grip (given the hand size vs. the frame size of even the smallest production handgun) aim, enable (e.g. take off safety where appropriate), and <i>squeeze</i> a trigger with the action necessary to make it fire straight is at best lottery odds.  I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s ever been demonstrated in a laboratory condition (which you would think anti-RKBA researchers must have attempted).<p>I <i>could</i> theoretically picture a kid pulling a trigger with <i>thumb</i> strength, but that could only hit the child or somebody directly behind him.