Guns used in mass shootings in the U.S. 1982-2023

Weapon types used in mass shootings in the United States between 1982 and December 2023, by number of weapons and incidents

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Release date

December 2023

Region

United States

Survey time period

1982 to December 6, 2023

Supplementary notes

Handguns includes pistols, revolvers, derringers and other unspecified semi-automatic handguns.

Rifles includes non-automatic, semi-automatic, and illegally modified rifles.

*Firearms used in the Las Vegas Strip massacre are not included as a result of unspecific data. There were 23 firearms used, most of which were rifles, however no more specific information is available in the source.

Since 2013, the source defines a mass shooting as any single attack in a public place with three or more fatalities, in line with the definition by the FBI. Before 2013, a mass shooting was defined as any single attack in a public place with four or more fatalities.

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