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...WISQARS: https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html
CDC says 79% of homicides during 2020 were caused by firearms. Those percentages don't add up.
A direct quote from Pew says:
In 2020, handguns were involved in 59% of the 13,620 U.S. gun murders and non-negligent manslaughters for which data is available, according to the FBI. Rifles – the category that includes guns sometimes referred to as “assault weapons” – were involved in 3% of firearm murders. Shotguns were involved in 1%. The remainder of gun homicides and non-negligent manslaughters (36%) involved other kinds of firearms or those classified as “type not stated.”
I've read elsewhere that a popular "murder bullet" is the 9 mm. Making a guess here but perhaps this data is incomplete because either the type of specific firearm wasn't known or wasn't recorded and 9 mm rounds are popular in both handguns and long guns making it difficult to be certain in cases where the actual weapon isn't recovered.
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