Question: Firearm Training and Safety Does firearm training result in safer practices by gun owners? In one study, randomly selected subjects were surveyed with the results given in the accompanying table. Use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that formal firearm training is independent of how firearms are stored. Does the formal training appear to have a positive effect?

Guns Stored Loaded and Unlocked?

Yes No

Had formal firearm training 122 329

Had no formal firearm training 49 299

Based on data from "Firearm Training and Storage," by Hemenway, Solnick, Azrael,

Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 273, No. 1.