““These results demonstrate that air guns can cause severe, yet preventable, eye injury among the pediatric population,” explained Dr. Douglas Fredrick. “To reduce rates of pediatric eye injury, both practitioners and air gun companies should promote and lobby for eye safety mandates among all air gun users. Furthermore, changes in state policy to regulate possession and usage of air guns among minors may be warranted to reduce rates of accidental injury.””
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NOT GOOD NEWS! But it seems most of the reporting on this study from Stanford University puts the cause properly in the hands of PARENTS in supervision, use and eye-pro…
Interesting to see former (??)-airsoft business guy John Steele quoted in the Time article, too…
Links to the various parts of the story…most will cost you money, but welcome to today’s Journo-dilemma;
TIME Magazine online LINK HERE
Wall Street Journal ($$) LINK HERE
Stanford Medicine SCOPE website online LINK HERE
Science Direct.com’s link to the original Paper ($$) from Rachel Lee and Dr. Douglas Fredrick LINK HERE