23–45%

Florida’s Shoot First law was associated with a 45 percent increase in monthly firearm homicide rates among white residents and a 23 percent increase among Black residents.

David K. Humphreys, Antonio Gasparrini, and Douglas J. Wiebe, “Evaluating the Impact of Florida’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ Self-Defense Law on Homicide and Suicide by Firearm: An Interrupted Time Series Study,” JAMA Internal Medicine 177, no. 1 (January 2017): 44–50, https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.6811.

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68%

Sixty-eight percent of the guns recovered at crime scenes in Mexico and submitted to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for tracing between 2016 and 2021 were traced back to American gun manufacturers or importers.

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79%

Texas, Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Florida were the top five sources of crime guns recovered and traced in Mexico from 2017 to 2021, accounting for 26,001 firearms, or 79 percent of all crime guns recovered there and traced during those years.

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41%

In its latest report examining thousands of gun trafficking investigations, the ATF identified unlicensed dealers as being involved in more cases than any other trafficking channel, representing 41 percent of the investigations (or 3,404 cases).

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3 in 5

Roughly three out of every five people in Florida claiming Shoot First had prior arrests before killing someone and invoking the law, with about one-third of these defendants having previously been arrested for serious crimes like assault and robbery.

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