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Youth gun carrying in schools has become a national issue, as juvenile violence and weapon carrying result in severe societal consequences and costs. Although an estimated 6% of male high school students carried a weapon on school property in the last month (Kann et al., 2016), there are currently no prevalence estimates of gun carrying in schools. The Arizona Youth Survey (AYS) is administered by the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission to estimate the prevalence and frequency of problematic youth behaviors. The projected 2018 sample includes 60,000 students in 8th, 10th, and 12th grades from 275 schools. In preliminary data from 13,078 youth, 210 (1.61%) reported bringing a handgun to school in the past year. We will use complete data from the 2018 AYS to examine risk and protective factors predicting gun carrying in school, by incorporating variables at the individual, peer, family, school, and community levels. We hypothesize that results will be in line with previous literature and theory, and will demonstrate that individual and contextual risk and protective factors will be associated with gun carrying. Results can identify which influential risk and protective factors should be the primary focus of prevention efforts intended to reduce juvenile gun carrying.