Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund released new research on the extensive toll of nonfatal shootings in the U.S. and Missouri, drawing on hospital records to estimate the daily average of nonfatal shootings and highlight the disproportionate share shouldered by adolescents and young adults, particularly males.

While rates of nonfatal firearm injury vary tremendously across the country, in Missouri, there are 42.3 nonfatal firearm injuries per 100,000 people.

Additional national findings include: 

• An estimated 84,776 people—more than 230 people each day—were shot and wounded by firearms in the U.S. in 2017, the most recent year for which data is available. This is more than double the daily toll of fatal gun deaths.
• 87 percent of those who visit a hospital for a gunshot wound are men or boys.
• Though making up just a small slice of the U.S. population, 15- to 24-year-olds comprise 37 percent of all hospital-treated gunshot wound victims.
• Black people, with a rate of 113.8 nonfatal injuries per 100,000 people, have the highest rate of nonfatal gun injuries over 10 times higher than white people. The Latino and Latina rate of nonfatal gun injuries is double that of white people.

Each year, over 1,100 people die by guns in the state. Missouri has 5th highest rate of gun deaths in the U.S.

More information about the rates of nonfatal firearm injuries here. More information on gun violence in Missouri is available here.