Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 12.6

No permit required for a purchase of a firearm.

According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence website:

1) One in three people in the U.S. know someone who has been shot

2) The U.S. firearm homicide rate is 20 times higher than the combined rates of 22 countries that have similar wealth and population

3) An average of seven children and teens under the age of 20 are killed by guns every day

Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 12.6

No permit required for a purchase of a firearm.

Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 13

Permit required only for a handgun.

Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 13.7

No permit required for a purchase of a firearm.

Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 13.8

No permit required for a purchase of a firearm.

Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 14.1

No permit required for a purchase of a firearm.

Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 14.1

No permit required for purchase of a firearm.

Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 14.3

No permit required for a purchase of a firearm.

Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 14.4

No permit required for a purchase of a firearm.

Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 15.2

No permit required for a purchase of a firearm.

Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 15.4

No permit required for a purchase of a firearm.

Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 15.5

No permit required for a purchase of a firearm.

Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 16.5

No permit required for a purchase of a firearm.

Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 16.7

No permit required for a purchase of a firearm.

Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 16.7

No permit required for a purchase of a firearm.

Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 16.8

No permit required for purchase of a firearm.

Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 17.6

No permit required for purchase of a firearm.

Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 17.8

No permit required for a purchase of a firearm.

Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 19.3

No permit required for a purchase of a firearm.

Death by firearm per 100,000 population: 19.8

No permit required for purchase of a firearm.

In Alaska, suicide was the leading cause of gun deaths, with it being the main factor in more than 80% of all firearm deaths. John Roman, senior fellow at the Urban Institute, an economic and social policy think tank told USA Today that states with the highest rates of suicide also usually had the strongest culture of gun ownership. "There are many more suicides in places where it's easy to get a gun," he said.