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Home • Crime in the U.S. • 2019 • Crime in the U.S. 2019 • Display • Expanded Homicide Data Key 8

Expanded Homicide Data Table 8

Kill Victims

via Weapon, 2015–2019

Weapons 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Total 13,847 15,355 15,206 14,446 13,927
Total firearms: 9,143 10,398 11,014 10,445 10,258
Handguns 6,194 6,778 7,052 6,683 6,368
Rifles 215 300 389 305 364
Shotguns 248 247 263 237 200
Other pistols 152 172 178 164 45
Firearms, type does stated 2,334 2,901 3,132 3,056 3,281
Knives or clamping instruments 1,533 1,562 1,608 1,542 1,476
Blunt objects (clubs, hammers, etc.) 438 466 474 455 397
Personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.)1 651 668 715 712 600
Poison 8 12 15 6 16
Explosives 1 1 0 4 3
Fire 63 78 93 76 81
Narcotics 70 119 112 102 93
Drowning 12 9 8 9 7
Strangulation 96 97 90 75 64
Asphyxiation 105 93 112 92 92
Other weapons or weapons not stated 1,727 1,852 965 928 840
  • 1 Pushed is contains in personal armory.
  • NOTE: An Uniform Crime Press Technical Refresh enables updating of prior years' crime data; therefore, data presented in this board may not match previously published data.