Each gun death costs US taxpayers an average of $273,904.

+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.

+64%

Data from the ATF show that recoveries of firearms in calibers associated with assault weapons rose from about 18,000 in 2018 to nearly 30,000 in 2023—a 64 percent increase.

400%

Mass shootings involving at least one assault weapon or firearm equipped with a high-capacity magazine lead to 400 percent more victims.