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Cities with the most gun shops per person have nearly four times higher rates of people who die by gun suicide than cities with the fewest.

Source: Everytown analysis of CDC NVSS city firearm suicide data, 2016–2020, and ATF FFL data, 2020. Analysis features 752 cities.

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Every day, 125 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, 2019–2023; Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project nonfatal firearm injury data, 2020; and SurveyUSA, Market Research Study #26602, 2022.

Last updated: 11.8.2024