States. During the previous 2 decades, overall suicide rates and firearm suicide rates have
risen by approximately one third, approaching 50,000 overall suicides during 2022,
including approximately 27,000 firearm suicides (1). Firearm suicides account for
approximately one half of all suicides, and this proportion has been increasing (2, 3). This
analysis includes national firearm suicide data from 2019 through the end of 2022 …