The Armory Project

Creating time and distance between a person in crisis and a loaded firearm can prevent suicide.

Firearms are the most common and lethal means of suicide. Introducing time and distance between a person in crisis and their firearms has been shown to decrease suicide risk. The research also indicates that a person experiencing a suicidal crisis who cannot access their preferred means will not pursue an alternate method.

The Armory Project (TAP) helps prevent firearm suicides by facilitating safe, voluntary, out-of-home firearm storage with trusted firearms dealers and other vetted partners in local communities.

Firearm owners may consider temporarily storing firearms outside the home when they are traveling for an extended period or are away on a military deployment, when someone in the home is dealing with a mental health or substance abuse crisis, or when children are visiting. TAP partners including firearm shops and ranges, military bases, and others who are helping save lives by raising awareness and decreasing stigma around voluntary out-of-home storage and providing temporary firearm storage for firearm owners when they need it.

There are times where the safest and most responsible thing is to temporarily store firearms outside of the home environment. For those times, The Armory Project connects gun owners across several states with voluntary, temporary firearm storage options in their community.

Gun shops, ranges, and other partners are stepping up to serve their communities in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Learn more at www.armoryproject.org/find-storage.

The Armory Project team is a coalition of Veterans, community leaders, and experts in public health and research who created and tested TAP in their home state of Louisiana.