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Cars are the most common location for unintentional shootings outside the home.

Source: Everytown Research analysis of #NotAnAccident Index, 2015–2024. The data reflects 650 shootings that occurred in places outside of homes, excluding unknown locations.

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Every day, nearly 130 people in the United States are killed with guns, twice as many are shot and wounded, and countless others are impacted by acts of gun violence.

Everytown Research analysis of CDC, WONDER, Provisional Mortality Statistics, Multiple Cause of Death, 2020–2024; Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project nonfatal firearm injury data, 2020; and SurveyUSA, Market Research Study #26602, 2022.

Last updated: 1.15.2026