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Strong gun safety laws, some that restrict access to the most lethal means of suicide for individuals in crisis, have not resulted in increases in suicide using another method.

Source: CDC, WONDER, 1999–2022 (accessed August 8, 2023); Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund’s Gun Law Rankings, 2023.

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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