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The .45-caliber pistol that killed Lucas Heagren, 3, on Memorial Day last year at his Ohio home had been temporarily hidden under the couch by his father. But Lucas found it and shot himself through the right eye. “It’s bad,” his mother told the 911 dispatcher. “It’s really bad.” A few days later in Georgia, Cassie Culpepper, 11, was riding in the back of a pickup with her 12-year-old brother and two other children. Her brother started playing with a pistol his father had lent him to scare coyotes. Believing he had removed all the bullets, he pointed the pistol...

<p>PANAMA CITY, Fla. - Accidental shootings involving children nationally along with one next door prompted Mike Worley to invent a bullet to prevent such tragedies.</p> <p>Worley, a professional photographer and gun enthusiast who belongs to the National Rifle Association, turned in a patent application earlier this year for the design that will lock up a gun when accidentally fired.</p>

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - Accidental shootings involving children nationally along with one next door prompted Mike Worley to invent a bullet to prevent such tragedies. Worley, a professional photographer and gun enthusiast who belongs to the National Rifle Association, turned in a patent application earlier this year for the design that will lock up a gun when accidentally fired. In case after case, children have shot themselves or playmates with guns that adults had hidden away and even locked up, Worley said Monday. "The kids will find the guns," Worley said. "I figured there has to be a way...