Guns used in homicide, is the rate increasing or decreasing?

16 One of the hot button items in the upcoming election is gun control. Post Orlando, people are swarming gun shops trying to purchase guns, the media is discussing assault rifles. Most, (over half), Americans have been percepted to believe that gun violence is increasing. It is not. However, the use of guns in suicide is rising.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/10/21/gun-homicides-steady-after-decline-in-90s-suicide-rate-edges-up/