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From 1994 to 2023, gun ownership increased 28% in America. In 2023, about 16.7 million firearms were sold in the U.S. In the first four months of 2024, nearly 5.5 million firearms were sold, averaging around 1.3 million per month. About 72% of gun owners say they own a gun primarily for protection. [3]
Location Firearms per 100 Region Subregion Population 2017 Civilian firearms Computation method Registered firearms Unregistered firearms Notes United States: 120.5 Americas North America 326,474,000 393,347,000 1 1,073,743 392,273,257 Est. [note 2] Falkland Islands: 62.1 Americas South America 3,000 2,000 2 1,705 295 Yemen: 52.8 Asia Western Asia
This is a list of US states by gun deaths and rates of violence. In 2021, there were 26,000 gun suicides and 21,000 gun homicides, together making up a sixth of deaths from external causes. In 2021, there were 26,000 gun suicides and 21,000 gun homicides, together making up a sixth of deaths from external causes.
Learn about the problem of gun violence in America through these graphs and charts. The post Gun Violence Statistics in the United States: 12 Charts You Need to See appeared first on Reader's Digest.
Republican women are the ones driving up the party’s gun ownership percentage most dramatically, with 19% of them owning guns in the 2007-2012 period and 33% in the most recent six-year period.
The United States has the highest rate of civilian gun ownership per capita. [88] [89] [90] According to the CDC, between 1999 and 2014 there were 185,718 homicides from use of a firearm and 291,571 suicides using a firearm. [91] The U.S. gun homicide rate in 2019 was 18 times the average rate in other developed countries. [92]
A controversial map recently published by The Journal News newspaper in New York marked one of the latest reactions to the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Conn. The map disclosed the ...
For example, women and ethnic minorities saw the sharpest rise of private gun ownership in the United States in 2020 and the ongoing ownership trends do not indicate any sign of abatement. [20] [21] [22] Also, in 2020 and 2021 a sharp increase in gun ownership was seen due to the riots and pandemic during that time. [23] [24] Nearly half of the ...