>In February 2026, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published final mortality statistics for 2024 based on death certificates filed for U.S. residents in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. This data confirms that in 2024, California achieved the state’s lowest firearm death, firearm suicide, and firearm homicide rates on record in CDC data collected since 1968. Historic reductions in firearm homicide also drove California’s overall homicide rate to its lowest level on record in CDC data. In addition, it was found that California was one of three states that achieved record low firearm homicide rates in 2024, after reducing statewide firearm homicide rates by 35% in three years. Provisional data indicates that these historic reductions continued in 2025, despite destabilizing federal actions.
>California has been making much more significant progress than the rest of the nation on average: As recently as 2010, a child under 18 was more likely to die from bullet wounds in California than in the rest of the U.S. on average. By 2024, a child in the rest of the nation was nearly three times as likely to die from bullet wounds as a child in California.
SS: California has been trending lower and lower in firearm mortality rates, with particularly massive gains post-2010, even as rates have ticked up across the country. California gun laws and, more importantly, their enforcement, continue to pay dividends, especially in public emergency care expenses.
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Empress Spanberger is taking note
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It’s amazing what can be done when a state makes it their goal.
Firearm deaths are a choice that a large portion of the states have decided is acceptable
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>In February 2026, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published final mortality statistics for 2024 based on death certificates filed for U.S. residents in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. This data confirms that in 2024, California achieved the state’s lowest firearm death, firearm suicide, and firearm homicide rates on record in CDC data collected since 1968. Historic reductions in firearm homicide also drove California’s overall homicide rate to its lowest level on record in CDC data. In addition, it was found that California was one of three states that achieved record low firearm homicide rates in 2024, after reducing statewide firearm homicide rates by 35% in three years. Provisional data indicates that these historic reductions continued in 2025, despite destabilizing federal actions.
>California has been making much more significant progress than the rest of the nation on average: As recently as 2010, a child under 18 was more likely to die from bullet wounds in California than in the rest of the U.S. on average. By 2024, a child in the rest of the nation was nearly three times as likely to die from bullet wounds as a child in California.
SS: California has been trending lower and lower in firearm mortality rates, with particularly massive gains post-2010, even as rates have ticked up across the country. California gun laws and, more importantly, their enforcement, continue to pay dividends, especially in public emergency care expenses.
Empress Spanberger is taking note
It’s amazing what can be done when a state makes it their goal.
Firearm deaths are a choice that a large portion of the states have decided is acceptable