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Firearms Facts 
In 1992, 37,502 Americans
were killed with firearms, in homicides, suicides and accidents.
That's 103 American men, women and children every dayl
- Nationaf Center for Health Stafrsncs, unpublished data, 4/21/94 |
Handguns were used to murder
14,204 people in this country in 1993 - up more than 5% from
1992.
- FBI Uniform Crime Reports. 12/4/94 p.16 |
18,152 Americans took their
own lives with firearms in 1992.
- National Center for Health Statistics, npublished data, 4/21/94 |
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In 1992,1,409 people were
unintentionally killed with firearms.
- National Center for Heaffir Statistics, unpublished data,
4/21/94 |
Every day1 15 children,
aged 19 and under1 are killed with guns.
- National Center for Health Statistics, unpublished data, 4/21/94 |
According to the U.S. Department
of Jusbce, "In 1993, people arrned with handguns committed more
than 1.1 million violent crimes."
- Guns Used In Crime. Bureau of Justice Statistics, July 1995 |
There are more than 222
million firearms in the possession of private citizens in the
U.S. 76 million of the firearms in circulation are handguns.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, November 1994 |
Licensed firearms dealers
sell an estimated 7.5 million guns per year, including 3.5 million
handguns.
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, November 1994 |
Handgun homicides increased
480% from 1989 to 1993. Murders committed with all other weapons
declined by 3%.
- FBI Uniform Crime Reports, 12/4/94, p.18 |
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Every year, approximately
300,000 firearms are reported stolen to the FBI.
- Bureau alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms |
There are an estimated
one million semi-automatic assault weapons in private hands
in the U.S.
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms |
A new handgun is produced
every 20 seconds.
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms |
In 1990, the cost of firearm
injuries in the United States was an estimated S20.4 billion.
This includes $1.4 billion for direct expenditures for health
care and related goods, $1.6 billion in Iost productvity resulting
from injury-related illness and disability, and $17.4 billion
in lost productivity from premature death.
- Max and Rice, Health Affairs
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Every six hours1 a youth
aged 10-19 commits suicide with a firearm - a total of 1,429
in 1992.
- National Center for Health statistics, unpublished data, 4/21/94 |
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Firearm homicide is the
leading cause of death for black males aged 15-34.
- National Center for Health Statistics, unpub flsned data,
4/21/94 |
In 1994, 157 law enforcement
officers were killed in the line of duty --75 with guns.
- FBI, Law Enforcement officers killed & Assaulted, 1994 |
In 1992, handguns were
used to murder 36 people in Sweden, 97 in Switzerland, 60 in
Japan, 128 in Canada, 33 in Great Britain, 13 in Australia,
and 13,495 in the United States.
- Embassies and foreign crime reporting agencies, FBI Uniform
Crime Reports |
In 1993, there were only
251 justifiable handgun homicides by private citlzens in the
United States.
- FBI Uniform Crime Reports, 12/4/94, p.18 |
More Americans were murdered
in the four years 1988-1991 than were killed in battle in the
8.5 years of the Vietnam War.
- Department of Defense, Defense Almanac / FBI Uniform Crime
Report, 10/3/93, p.18 |
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In 1992, 37,502 Americans
were killed with firearms, in homicides, suicides, and accidents.
In comparison, 33,651 Americans were killed in the Korean War
and 47,364 Americans were killed in the Vietnam War.
- National Center for Health Statisnas, Department of Defense
Almanac |
In 1990, nearly 3 of 4
juvenile murder offenders used guns to perpetrate their crimes.
- FBI Uniform Crime Report, 12/4/94, p.18 |
The presence of a gun in
the home triples the risk of homicide in the home and increases
by five the chance of a suicide.
- Kellermann, "Gun Ownership...." New England Journal of Medicine,
10/7/93, Vol. 329, No. 15. |
Firearms kill more people
between the ages of 15 and 24 than all natural causes combined.
Firearms are the number two killer of men and women 10-34 years
of age-- second only to motor vehicle crashes.
- National Center for Health Statistics, unpublished data, 4/21/94 |
Data assembled by:
Handgun Control Inc., 1225 Eye Street, NW, Suite 1100, Washington,
DC 20005 ph# (202) 898-0792 |
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