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Guns Used in Crime
By Marianne W. ZawitzBJS StatisticianHow often are guns used in violent crimes? According to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), million criminal victimizations oc-curred in 1993, including millionviolent crimes of rape and sexual as-sault, robbery, and aggravated the victims of these violent crimes, million (29%) stated that they facedan offender with a firearm.* In 1993, the FBI's Crime in the UnitedStates estimated that almost 2 millionviolent crimes of murder, rape, rob-bery, and aggravated assault were re-ported to the police by citizens. About582,000 of these reported murders,robberies, and aggravated assaultswere committed with firearms. Murderwas the Crime that most frequently in-volved firearms; 70% of the 24,526murders in 1993 were committed withfirearms. How do we know about the gunsused by criminals?
Guns Used in Crime * See note on page 7. Handguns are most often the type of firearm used in crime According to the Victim Survey (NCVS), 25% of the victims of rape and sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault in 1993 faced an offender armed with a handgun. Of all
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