FBI crime stats 2018 -- weapons used in murders

The FBI crime statistics for 2018 have been published. And one interesting segment of it addresses weapons used in murders. The table you see below was adapted from Table 20.

Table 20 - Murder - Types of weapons 2018
Total murders	Total firearms	handguns	rifles	shot-guns	firearms unknown	knives or cutting	other weapons	hands, fists, feet etc
14,123	10,265	6,603	297	235	3,130	1,515	1,671	672
100%	73%	47%	2%	2%	22%	11%	12%	5%

As you can see, roughly 73% were committed with firearms with almost half, 43%, with handguns. Rifles only 2%, same as shotguns. But with 22% being unknown firearms then some of those other percentages would probably be higher.

In any event, it's an interesting set of stats the FBI has put together.

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4:24 PM 10/1/2019