LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office continued to urge gun storage safety Sunday after another accidental shooting involving a Louisville teen.
"We're once again having to talk about gun safety after another juvenile accidentally shot themselves," Col. Steve Healey said.
Sunday's early morning shooting makes the third recent self-inflicted accidental shooting in Louisville by a juvenile.
Healey said seeing constant incidents where young people hurt themselves after getting ahold of guns is "incredibly frustrating."
Louisville police said around 4:36 a.m. Sunday, officers responded to a shooting in the Park Hill neighborhood on Standard Village Circle.
When they arrived, they found a teen boy who accidentally shot himself in the leg. He was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The sheriff's office is giving away gun locks to prevent accidents just like this. People can pick up free gun locks at the sheriff's office or at vehicle inspection locations in the city.
"This is about the safety of children," Healey said.
They have posted the message about the free gun lock giveaway online.
Healey said some people are missing just how important it is to safely store guns.
"When we look at all the comments and it's like, 'I need to be ready to fire right now, I can't be messing with a gun lock, it's going to take too much time.' It doesn't take too much time when we're talking about guns getting in the hands of children," Healey said. "We can support the Second Amendment, and we do support the Second Amendment. But we can still demand safe storage and responsible gun ownership."
Gun safety is an issue Miss Heartland winner Taylor French Henry strongly advocates for.
"These are young lives that do matter," she said.
Henry has already donated hundreds of gun locks to the sheriff's office, which got the gun lock giveaway rolling.
After Sunday's shooting, she said she hopes families take things a step further and have conversations with their children and loved ones that matter.
"Having conversations and truly being introspective with yourself about what safety measures were in place before this, where they come into play now and how we prevent this from happening again," Henry said.
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