Check out this infographic for everything you need to know about how universal background checks can help us prevent gun violence.

by Think Progress

• Guns Kill More Americans than War
• Background Check System Has Blocked Dangerous People from Getting Guns
• Gaps in the Gun Background Check System Put Us All at Risk
• Universal Background Checks Are Easy and Hassle-Free

Arkadi Gerney is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. Kendall Bills is a Special Assistant for the External Affairs team at the Center.

Endnotes

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[2] Compiled using: 1968–1980 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates from Figure 1, “Observed and predicted firearm- and motor-vehicle—related injury deaths, by year — United States, 1968–2005,” available at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00023655.htm#00000191.gif (last accessed February 2013); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “WISQARS Injury Mortality Reports, 1981-1998,” available at http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate9.html (last accessed February 2013); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “WISQARS Fatal Injury Reports, National and Regional, 1999 – 2010,” available at http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_us.html (last accessed February 2013); Donna L. Hoyert and Xu Jiaquan, “Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2011,” National Vital Statistics Reports 61 (6) (2012): 40–42, available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_06.pdf.

[3] Compiled using: Anne Leland and Mari-Jana “M-J” Oboroceanu, “American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics” (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 2010), available at http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf; “iCasualties: Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom Casualties,” available at http://www.icasualties.org (last accessed February 2013).

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[5] Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Operations 2011.

[6] “Federal Denials: Reasons Why the NICS Section Denies,” available at http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/reports/20130205_denials.pdf.

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[8] Caroline Wolf Harlow, Firearm Use by Offenders (Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, 2001), available at http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/ascii/fuo.txt.

[9] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “WISQARS Fatal Injury Reports, National and Regional, 1999 – 2010,” available at http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_us.html (last accessed February 2013).

[10] Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, “Report of Active Firearms Licenses – License Type by State Statistics,” January 10, 2013, available at http://www.atf.gov/about/foia/download/ffl-type-by-state-2013/0113-ffl-type-by-state.pdf.

[11] U.S. Postal Service, “Postal Facts 2012” (2012), available at http://about.usps.com/future-postal-service/postalfacts-2012.pdf.

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