VPC analyses of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control consistently show that states with weak gun violence prevention laws and higher rates of gun ownership have the highest overall gun death rates in the nation. In addition, states with the lowest overall gun death rates have lower rates of gun ownership and some of the strongest gun violence prevention laws in the nation. However, even in these states the human toll of gun violence is far above the gun death rate in other industrialized nations.
States with Weak Gun Laws and Higher Gun Ownership Lead Nation in Gun Deaths, New Data for 2015 Confirms (01/10/2017)
States with Weak Gun Laws and Higher Gun Ownership Lead Nation in Gun Deaths, New Data for 2014 Confirms (01/04/2016)
States with Weak Gun Laws and Higher Gun Ownership Lead Nation in Gun Deaths, New Data for 2013 Confirms (01/29/2015)
States with Weak Gun Laws and Higher Gun Ownership Lead Nation in Gun Deaths, New Data for 2012 Confirms (10/23/2014)
States with Weak Gun Laws and Higher Gun Ownership Lead Nation in Gun Deaths (06/18/2014)
States With Higher Gun Ownership and Weak Gun Laws Lead Nation in Gun Death (02/07/2013)
Massachusetts Has Lowest Gun Death Rate in Nation (04/23/2012)
States With Higher Gun Ownership and Weak Gun Laws Lead Nation in Gun Death (10/24/2011)
States with Higher Gun Ownership and Weak Gun Laws Lead Nation in Gun Death (06/02/2010)
States with Higher Gun Ownership and Weak Gun Laws Lead Nation in Gun Death (05/06/2009)
“Pro-Gun” States Lead the Nation in Per Capita Firearm Death Rates (04/24/2008)
“Pro-Gun” States Lead Nation in Per Capita Firearm Death Rates New Violence Policy Center Analysis Reveals (02/07/2006)
