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An estimated 22 million guns were purchased in 2020, a 64 percent increase over 2019.
Last updated: 2.19.2022
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In mass shootings, four times as many people are shot when an assault weapon or high-capacity magazine is involved compared with incidents involving neither.
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90%
90 percent of people killed by on-duty police are killed with a firearm.
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From 1990 to 2017, the use of high-capacity magazines in high-fatality shootings resulted in a 62 percent increase in the average death toll of mass shootings.
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If the federal ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines had remained in effect from 2005 through 2022, an estimated 38 public mass shootings could have been prevented.
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