2023 - guns killed 48,000 in usa

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/05/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-us/

Nearly 47,000 people died of gun-related injuries in the United States
in 2023, according to the latest available statistics from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While the number of gun
deaths in the U.S. fell for the second consecutive year, it remained
among the highest annual totals on record.

What share of U.S. gun deaths are murders? What share are suicides?

Though they tend to get less public attention than gun-related
murders, suicides have long accounted for the majority of U.S. gun
deaths. In 2023, 58% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were
suicides (27,300), while 38% were murders (17,927). The remaining gun
deaths that year involved law enforcement (604), were accidental (463)
or had undetermined circumstances (434), according to CDC data.

About eight-in-ten U.S. murders in 2023 – 17,927 out of 22,830, or 79%
– involved a firearm. That was among the highest percentages since
1968, the earliest year for which the CDC has online records.

More than half of all suicides in 2023 – 27,300 out of 49,316, or 55%
– also involved a gun. That was one of the highest percentages since
2000, when 57% of suicides involved a firearm.

Gun murders rose dramatically during the coronavirus pandemic but have
declined substantially in more recent years. The number of gun murders
fell from a record 20,958 in 2021 to 17,927 in 2023, a 14% decrease.