- Types of firearms: (1) handguns, (2) rifles, and (3) shotguns.
- The number of gun owners in the United States is 80 million.
- An automatic firearm, continuously fires bullets as long as the trigger is pulled.
- Shotguns and rifles are both considered "long guns."
- The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.
- There are roughly 300 million firearms owned by civilians in the United States as of 2010.
- In the United States, firearms remain the most common method of suicide, accounting for 50.7% of all suicides.
- Percentage Owning a Firearm: Males 47%, Females 13%.
- Roughly 16,272 murders were committed in the United States during 2008. Of these, about 10,886 or 67% were committed with firearms.
- American civilians use guns to defend themselves and others from crime at least 989,883 times per year.
- The rate of firearm deaths among kids under age 15 is almost 12 times higher in the United States than in 25 other industrialized countries combined.
- Every day, more than 80 Americans die from gun violence.
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