Firearm Injury and Death from Crime, 1993-97

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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FIREARMS ASSAULT INJURIES AND MURDERS FELL BETWEEN 1993 AND 1997

  WASHINGTON, D.C.   The number of gunshot wounds from
any type of crime fell nearly 40 percent during the five-year period
from 1993 through 1997, according to a new comprehensive Justice
Department report.  The Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics
(BJS) cites...

Federal Firearm Offenders, 1992-98: With Preliminary Data for 1999 & Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 1999

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More Than 200,000 Firearms Applications Rejected in 1999
Defendants Charged with Federal Firearms Offenses Increased from 1998 to 1999

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Approximately 536,000 of the more than 22.2 million individual applications to purchase or pawn firearms have been rejected based on federal, state or local laws since the inception of the Brady Act...

Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2000

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FIREARMS PURCHASE APPLICATIONS DECLINED
DURING 2000

About 2 percent of the requests were rejected

WASHINGTON, D.C. - About 153,000 of the approximately 7.7 million applications for firearms transfers or permits were rejected last year, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today.

The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act mandates criminal...

Firearm Use by Offenders

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EIGHTEEN PERCENT OF STATE PRISONERS COMMITTED THEIR CRIMES WHILE ARMED

Nine Percent of State Prisoners Fired Their Weapons During the Offense

WASHINGTON, D.C. - About 18 percent of state prisoners and 15 percent of federal prisoners reported in 1997 that they were armed when they committed the offense for which they were...