2021 Gun Deaths Continue to Soar

116% increase in non-suicide gun deaths from January through May of this year comes on top of the massive surge in Rhode Island gun violence in 2020.

RI Non-Suicide Gun Deaths

January-MayNon-Suicide Gun Deaths
202113
20206
20196
20187
20171
20163
20154
20146

Source: https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/query
Table formatted by RICAGV.

FBI Background Check Surge Continues in RI

The total number of NICS checks from January through May 2021 is 20,426; in 2020 the total for the same period was 18,687.

RI NICS were already booming before COVID-19

From 2013-2019 Rhode Island averaged 24,380 per year; 2020 total was 51,369.

NICS Background checks - Rhode Island 1999-2020