“States and the federal government should…pass far tougher regulations on the gun industry, particularly through restrictions on the marketing of guns, which have helped supercharge the cult of the AR-15.”
– The New York Times, December 10, 2022
Share of U.S. guns in circulation that are “semiautomatic military-style rifles” like AR-15s: 6%
Share of U.S. gun-related murders due to rifles of all kinds, 2020*: 3%
*Latest available FBI data
“America’s Toxic Gun Culture,” The New York Times, December 10, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/opinion/america-gun-violence.html and “What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.,” by John Gramlich, Pew Research Center, February 3, 2022, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/)