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the FBI has a very thorough crime database, I am sure you can make a public request

afaik school shootings are a tiny fraction of youth gun homicides

similarly, "assault rifles" represent a tiny fraction of all gun homicides

FBI has only published their UCRs up through 2019

in the ghetto cities nearby, only a small number of murders and overall firearm incidents are solved. I cannot imagine that they are accurately captured at the national scale. On the 4th of July night or New Years night, literally hundreds of firearms go off for hours in crowded, urban areas.. completely illegal.

Solving a murder and determining whether a murder was committed with a rifle are two completely different things; you don't need to know who the culprit was to determine how they did it. There is no reason to believe that murders committed with rifles go unsolved more frequently than those committed with handguns.

FBI does indeed track unsolved homicides, as does your local PD

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