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Texas Fast Stats: Guns and Gun Violence Facts

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Texas Firearm Deaths

There were 3,683 gun-related deaths in Texas in 2019.
In 2018, 64% of all Texas suicides were by firearm.
In 2018, nearly 73% of veteran suicides in Texas were by firearm according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
In 2018, 174 women in Texas were killed by a male intimate partner—59% of those murders were by firearm.
Women in Texas are 24% more likely to be murdered with a gun than women in other states.
In 2019, at least 32 Texan children ages 0-17 died in unintentional shootings.

Cost

Gun violence in Texas costs $16.6 billion per year.

Lost and Stolen Guns

The number of guns reported stolen in the Lone Star State nearly doubled between 2007 and 2016, from at least 13,225 to at least 26,004, according to the National Crime Information Center, an FBI database used to track stolen property. Overall, at least 186,548 firearms were reported stolen in Texas over that 10-year period, more than any other state in the nation. Any statistics on the number of guns reported stolen are likely undercounted. Texas does not mandate the reporting of missing weapons to police.
Texas leads the nation in the number of guns that are lost or stolen each year from licensed dealers.

Gun Ownership in Texas

As of the end of 2018, nearly 1.4 million people have a state-regulated license to carry in Texas.
More than 6,800 Texas licenses to carry a handgun were denied, suspended, or revoked in Texas between September 1, 2018 and August 31, 2019.
As of October 2019, there were 10,471 federally regulated licensed gun dealers in Texas.
In 2019, it is estimated that at least 36% of Texans own guns and there are more than 29 million guns owned in Texas.
725,368 guns are registered in Texas, the most of any state and 67% more registered guns than second-place Florida.

Illegal Export of Firearms

Forty-one percent of crime guns recovered in Mexico from 2009-2014 originated in Texas.

Despite mass shootings in Sutherland Springs and Santa Fe, TX before the 2019 legislative session, Texas actually made access to firearms easier. After the mass shootings in El Paso and Odessa in August 2019, the Governor refused to call a special legislative session to pass common-sense laws to address gun violence prevention. See the Texas Gun Sense 2019 legislative report for more information.

March 2021