National Gun Violence Research Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 5622 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5622 To provide for a coordinated national research program to examine the nature, causes, consequences, and prevention of violence and unintended injury and death relating to gun ownership, use, and trafficking, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 30, 2025 Mrs. Foushee (for herself, Mr. Beyer, and Mr. Frost) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To provide for a coordinated national research program to examine the nature, causes, consequences, and prevention of violence and unintended injury and death relating to gun ownership, use, and trafficking, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``National Gun Violence Research Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress makes the following findings: (1) In the last 50 years, more individuals in the United States have died from gunshots than in all wars in which the United States was a combatant, combined. (2) The rate of gun violence deaths in the United States is more than 11 times that of other high-income nations. (3) Guns accounted for 79 percent of homicides and 55 percent of suicides in 2023, totaling over 45,000 deaths in the United States. (4) Gun violence disproportionately affects communities of color. In 2022, Black Americans were