Violent — Richmond, VA — reported 2026-07-01
KEY FACTS
- Incident type: Violent
- Location: Richmond, VA
- Date reported: 2026-07-01
- Suspect: not stated
REPORTED DETAILS
- 11 states and Washington D.C. have enacted laws to prohibit assault weapons
- 16 states have enacted regulations around assault weapons more generally
- From 2015 to 2022, shootings with four or more people killed where assault weapons were used resulted in nearly six times as many people shot, more than twice as many people killed, and 23 times as many people wounded per incident, on average compared to those that did not involve the use of one
- All of the ten deadliest mass shooting incidents from 2016 to 2025 involved both an assault weapon and a large-capacity magazine