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 |
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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
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