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A Guide to Mass Shootings in America

There have been at least 62 in the last 30 years—and most of the killers got their guns legally.

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| Updated: Wed Feb. 27, 2013 7:45 AM PST

Here is a timeline of 62 mass shootings in the United States, from 1982 through 2012. For further details and our interactive map locating all of these cases, click here.

For further details and our interactive map locating all of these cases, click here.

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