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Cities in states with the strongest gun laws have approximately 50 percent lower rates of people who die by gun suicide than cities in states with the weakest laws.

Source: Everytown analysis of CDC NVSS city firearm suicide data, 2016–2020, and Everytown Gun Law Rankings data, accessed June 2022. Analysis features 752 cities.

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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