Every Policymaker Should Know. . . The gun industry makes the only consumer products specifically designed to kill humans. And guns do kill every day.
Children are major victims of gun violence.
Every day, more than 10 children 19 years of age and under are killed by gunfire. According to a 1997 CDC study, the firearms-related death rate for U.S. children under 15 is nearly 12 times higher than that of 25 industrialized countries combined. The gun industry delivers 3.5 million new guns to U.S. markets every year. In 1991, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms reported that since the turn of the 20 th century, over 211 million firearms were manufactured in the United States, of which approximately 70 million were handguns. Since 1989, manufacturers and importers introduced an average of 3.5 million new guns into the U.S. market each year.