1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Gun Violence Research Act of 2017 . 2. Findings The Congress finds as follows: (1) As of December 4, 2017, there have been 56,825 incidents of gun violence in the United States in 2017. (2) As of December 4, 2017, there have been 14,319 deaths related to gun violence in the United States in 2017. (3) Defining a mass shooting as an incident of violence during which four or more people are shot, not including the shooter— (A) there have been 327 mass shootings in the United States in 2017; (B) on average, there is more than one mass shooting each day in the United States