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Fact check: Have mass shootings decreased in the US since 2022 law?

Flowers and a stuffed animal sit outside the Annunciation Church, the scene of a shooting the previous day, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States on August 28, 2025 [Tim Evans/Reuters]

Senator Chris Murphy, a leading supporter of stricter gun laws, said hours after an August 27 deadly Minneapolis school shooting that legislation enacted during the Biden administration led to a decline in mass shootings.

“There is something deeply wrong with a country that chooses to make running for their lives part of kids’ back to school ritual,” Murphy wrote on X. “When we finally passed a gun safety bill in 2022, mass shooting began to drop. But it was an unacceptably small start. We must do more.”

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