Research Guides
Pew Research Institute: Gun Violence in America
CQ Researcher Gun Control: Should lawmakers tighten firearm restrictions?
Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence: Gun Law Scorecard
Center for Disease Control: Injury Prevention & Control: Data & Statistics
CDC Wonder System - Underlying Cause of Death, 1999-2012 Request*
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Johns Hopkins University Center for Gun Policy and Research: Data Sources
Federation of American Scientists: 2012 Gun Control Legislation Report
Relationship between the incidence of firearm assaults and other factors (i.e. jurisdictional legal differences, demographics, socio-economic factors, etc.)
Overview Here:
http://www.nij.gov/topics/crime/gun-violence/Pages/welcome.aspx
Bureau of Justice Statistics:
http://www.bjs.gov/content/guns.cfm
1993-2011 survey here: http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?iid=4616&ty=pbdetail
State Procedures for Firearm Sales here: http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=291
Statistics regarding background checks for gun transfers: http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=246
Who Owns Guns:
http://www.nij.gov/topics/crime/gun-violence/pages/ownership.aspx
NRA-ILA
State gun laws are described here.
http://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/state-laws.aspx
US Gun Crime
Firearm crime by state covering murders, robberies, and assault.
See also: http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/sep/17/gun-crime-statistics-by-us-state and http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/jan/10/gun-crime-us-state
The US Census captures this information in their “Law Enforcement” section of their statistical abstract:
See: Section 5 for 1878-2012: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical_abstract.html
After 2012, you’ll have to go to the sources noted in the 2012 tables.
Gun Policy
Collection of links related to gun policy by topic.
http://www.gunpolicy.org/topics
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Firearms Trace Data by year and state.
https://www.atf.gov/statistics/index.html
FBI
Homicide statistics: offenders and victims, based on age, gender, race:
National Crime Victimization Survey
http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=245
See 1993-2001 Weapon Use and Violent Crime statistics including information on victims’ race, gender, and age:
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/wuvc01.pdf —other years here: http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbse&sid=6
Firearm Violence 1993-2011
Statistics by type of firearm including information on race, gender and age
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf
School Violence (in schools and colleges with weapons) is captured here:
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/nibrs/crime-in-schools-and-colleges
Project Gunrunner
Data related to ATF’s national initiative to reduce firearms trafficking to Mexico including potential monetary benefits
http://www.justice.gov/oig/semiannual/0911/atf.htm
Captured and Counted
Data on illicit firearms in Mexico and the Philippines.
Secretariado Ejecutivo
1997-2014 violence in Mexico (data is in Spanish).
http://secretariadoejecutivo.gob.mx/index.php
Small Arms Survey
Estimates of civilian owned firearms.
http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/H-Research_Notes/SAS-Research-Note-9.pdf
Data on the U.S. production and supply of firearms
http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/F-Working-papers/SAS-WP14-US-Firearms-Industry.pdf
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Criminal Victimization Statistics
http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=1743
The Washington Post
Gun ownership data by state
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/health/interactives/guns/ownership.html
Law Center
Links to gun violence statistics
http://smartgunlaws.org/category/gun-studies-statistics/gun-violence-statistics/
New York Police Department
Crime statistics in New York
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/crime_prevention/crime_statistics.shtml
http://www.criminaljustice.ny.gov/crimnet/ojsa/greenbook.pdf
The Way of the Gun
Data on firearms traffic across US-Mexican border
http://catcher.sandiego.edu/items/peacestudies/way_of_the_gun.pdf
WAVE Fund Study: Association between firearm ownership, firearm-related risk and risk reduction behaviours and alcohol-related risk behaviours
FBI: Background Checks by month/year and state
National Instant Criminal Background Check System
US Dept. of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives: Firearms Commerce in the US
National Associated of School Psychologists: Youth Gun Violence Fact Sheet