Posted on 04/12/2024 3:02:00 PM PDT by ammodotcom
Report highlights:
• An average of 10,252 firearms were used in homicides between 2015 and 2019. Handguns were involved in 59% of homicides in 2020.
• Handguns were used in 62% of homicides between 2015 and 2019.
• Most mass shooters used firearms chambered in 9mm and .223 Remington in 2023 and 2024 (to date), resulting in 45% of all deaths.
• 1 in 6 criminal assaults involving a firearm results in death.
• Gunshot victims were 4.5 times more likely to die when shot by larger caliber bullets (.357 magnum, .40, .44 magnum, .45, 10 mm, and 7.62 × 39 mm) than small calibers (.25, .32, and .38).
• Knives are used in 3X more murders than rifles. Personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.) are used in nearly 2 times more murders than rifles.
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Some stats missing here, like how many were illegal? How many were stolen weapons? How many were by law abiding citizens who had the weapon lawfully, stats can be used and bent all kinds of ways.
The bigger the burger, the better the burger.
I carry .380 and I haven’t killed anyone. Does that support the statistics?
My least favorite caliber, 9 mm, is apparently quite popular with murders. 40 and 45 is my preference as a heavier gun tends to shoot straighter (without the down and left off target tendency during trigger pull).
How many of these “mass shootings” were inner city criminal on criminal crimes? The kind that don’t matter...
9mm is still cheap and is the hotbed of projectile development these days. I also prefer .45 personally, among other reasons because the flying ashtray projectiles it throws tend to be subsonic.
Probably and unfortunately going to be going to 9mm for carry in places where while legal the local DA will be a try hard to find something to hang up any self-defense shooter on. Likely a Glock or clone due to inexpensive, commonly available easily and quickly swapped out parts and that’s all I’ll say about that in an open forum. “Unknown Glock 9mm” is the most common ballistic finding these days, after all…
Looks like Elmer Keith was right.
How do they define a mass shooting? How many killed? Or is it how many are shot?
“ Likely a Glock or clone due to inexpensive, commonly available easily and quickly swapped out parts and that’s all I’ll say about that in an open forum. “Unknown Glock 9mm” is the most common ballistic finding these days, after all…”
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I remember 1968 when the most popular murder weapon was the.22 Saturday Night Special! Get rid of them and crime would go away. Available at any pawn shop, $12-$15 dollars, hardware store, book store, gas station, saddle shop, clothing store, grocery store. liquor store! Cash and carry, no paperwork or background check.
How did that 1968 Gun Control Law work out for you America!
9 mm is an European design.
Practically the only caliber carried by police and military in Europe.
It became popular here with the metric push!
I carried 40/45/357/44 and 380 in real hot weather for decades and just a couple years ago acquired my first 9
SigP365xl which almost immediately became my favorite carry gun it’s been absolutely reliable, accurate enough out to 25 yds and lotsa of capacity in a small package
It’s my first striker fired plastic gun as well but only took my a few hundred rounds to get feel and some muscle memory going so it points well too
Climate here just makes lugging around a big steel frame pistol a pita
I remember an episode of “Dragnet,” in which a man had been killed by a 9mm. Sgt, Friday said “Well, we’re looking for a Luger or a Browning.”
Kersplat
For a long time European police carried .32 and .380 pistols, I guess they didn’t have to deal with jacked up 3rd worlders.
Many European countries also had rules that civilians were not allowed to possess military calibers - which would be 9mm.
Not sure if police would be covered, or not.
Mexico has a similar law which accounts for the popularity of 1911’s in .38 Super in the Southwest.
It also became popular because you could get a pistol that held 13 or more rounds roughly as powerful as the .38s that were seen in the 5 or 6 shot revolvers most common in police service at the time. The Newhall incident in California put paid to the idea of 5 or 6 shot revolvers being enough as more than one officer was found dead at that scene with an empty gun and a fumbled reload or speedloader failure next to their body. The Norco shootout and the Miami-Dade shootout put further nails in that concept’s coffin and the North Hollywood Bank Robbery put paid to that idea for good.
European police are exempted or are sometimes even part of the national military, so no, a civilian ban on 9mm would not affect them.
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