A Newsy analysis of recently-released FBI crime data shows felony assaults with guns increased during the pandemic, in the vast majority of larger communities that track and regularly report the incidents to the federal government.  Newsy examined the data for more than 5 00 law enforcement agencies, covering populations of 50,000 people or more reporting to the FBI from 2019 to 2021, the most recent years data is available. The agencies examined cover one-fifth of the U.S. population. Newsy found: - Nearly four in five of the agencies (78%) studied had an increase in the number of felony gun assaults. - Increases in gun assaults of 75% or more occurred for about one-third of the agencies reporting to the FBI system, including cities like Austin, Portland, Louisville and Seattle. !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(e){if(void 0!==e.data["datawrapper-height"]){var t=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var a in e.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r