Black children and teens are 19 times more likely than white children and teens of the same age to die by gun homicide. | Everytown Research & Policy

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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.

90%

90 percent of people killed by on-duty police are killed with a firearm.

+62%

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.

38

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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