Brady issued a memo on April 2 lauding the role gun laws have played in the recent drop in violent crimes.
Among the statistics the group cited:
- 2025 could mark the lowest homicide rate since 1900.
- Murders dropped nearly 15% in 2024 alone.
- Firearm homicides are down ~27% since their 2021 peak.
- Gun assaults declined 22% year-over-year.
- Even large, populated jurisdictions are seeing rare, historically low homicide levels.
However, the group warns, there is still far too much gun violence in America:
- Nearly 18,000 people were killed with guns in homicides in 2023.
- Structural inequities and guns sold by licensed dealers that are trafficked into communities fuel crime and tragedies, and they make gun violence disproportionately more likely to impact Black and Brown Americans.
- As gun homicides drop, gun-related suicides increase—reaching a record high in 2023 with death rates increasing faster for younger than older adults and more for people of color than white people.
“Gun crime is falling in America—and that didn’t happen by chance, the memo says. “Targeted gun violence prevention policies are helping drive this historic decline. The Trump administration’s rollbacks of these policies will reverse this progress and cost lives. The question is simple: Do we build on what’s working or roll it back and risk everything?”