One in 4 U.S. Colorado teens have quick access to guns: study

NEW YORK, March 28 (Xinhua) -- One in 4 Colorado teens reported they could get access to a loaded gun within 24 hours, according to survey results published on Monday, with nearly half of them saying it would take them less than 10 minutes.

"That's a lot of access and those are short periods of time," said Virginia McCarthy, a doctoral candidate at the Colorado School of Public Health and the lead author of the research letter describing the findings in the medical journal JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) Pediatrics.