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Every year, nearly 360 children under the age of 18 unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else.

Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, “#NotAnAccident Index,” Average: 2015–2023, https://everytownresearch.org/maps/notanaccident/. See also, Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, “Preventable Tragedies: Unintentional Shootings by Children,” April 26, 2023, https://everytownresearch.org/report/notanaccident/.

Last updated: 5.9.2024

This equates to roughly one unintentional shooting per day, and 72 percent of these incidents take place inside a home.

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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