The type of gun used in most U.S. homicides is not an AR-15.
MORE: People hoping to protect kids from accidental gun injuries, deaths push for stronger safety lawsIn 2019, 3.6 million handguns were manufactured in the U.S., Flannery said. Only about 150,000 were exported that year, while another 2.5 million handguns were imported, he said,A gun is seen next to the curtains in front of a dead body at the scene of a multiple fatality shooting at the Jefferson Gun Outlet in Metairie, La., Feb. 20, 2021.
All other private sales involve sellers who either don't have the ability to conduct a check or don't have"a system that is comprehensive and timely and thorough as a check system," Flannery said.Handguns being processed as potential evidence sit in the gun storage vault in the Chicago Police Department's Homan Square facility on Jan. 26, 2017.
Semi-automatic rifles' bullets are bigger and travel much faster than handguns, Garrett said, and the combination of the speed and size of these bullets is why the risk of death and damage is so much higher.
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