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  2. Jul 6, 2023 · Statistics on firearm and shotgun certificates, England and Wales: April 2022 to March 2023. Published 6 July 2023. Applies to England and Wales. This release presents statistics on firearm...

    • Grahame Allen, Lukas Audickas
    • 2018
    • Recorded firearm offences. Non-air firearms (all firearms that are not air weapons, e.g. handguns, shotguns, rifles) accounted for 69% of all firearm offences recorded during the year ending 31 March 2021.
    • Homicide. The most recent data suggests that there were 35 homicides committed by shooting in the year ending 31 March 2021 – 6% of all homicides. Of these 35 victims, 11% were female and 89% were male.
    • Types of firearm offences. In the year ending 31 March 2021, Criminal damage and Violence Against Person (VATP) offence categories respectively accounted for 31% and 29% of air and non-air firearms offences combined.
    • Type of firearms used. Since 2010/11, handguns have remained the most commonly used non-air firearm, with such offences accounting for 37% of non-air firearm offences in 2020/21.
  3. Nearly nine out of 10 people killed by gun violence in 2019 were men. The highest number of homicide deaths occurred among people 20-24 years old, while the highest number of gun-enabled suicides happened among those aged 55-59.

    Country
    All Causes 2019 (#)
    Firearm-related Death Rate (per 100k)
    % Of World Gun Deaths
    49,437
    23.32
    19.81%
    37,040
    10.72
    14.85%
    22,119
    16.90
    8.87%
    14,711
    1.01
    5.9%
  4. Jul 4, 2024 · In 2022/23, 28 homicide offences involved the use of a firearm in England and Wales, compared with 28 in the previous reporting year. Overall, there were 602 homicides in England and Wales in...

  5. Feb 9, 2023 · In the year ending March 2022, there were 677 separate homicide incidents, the highest number since the year ending March 2008 (714 homicide incidents) (Appendix table 2). Figure 2 shows the...

  6. Sep 26, 2024 · Data tables relating to offences involving weapons as recorded by police and hospital episode statistics.

  7. Feb 8, 2024 · Over one in eight (13%) female victims were killed by “strangulation, asphyxiation” (23 victims). In contrast, a much smaller proportion of male victims (4%; 16) were killed this way....