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RECORDED CRIMES AND OFFENCES INVOLVING FIREARMS, SCOTLAND, 2001

Crimes and offences recorded by the police in which a firearm was alleged to have been used by how used, Scotland, 1992 - 2001

Table 5

Number & Percentage

How used

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

% change 00/01

Total

1,959

1,773

1,788

1,721

1,650

1,187

985

1,033

938

1,030

10

Fired

- fatal injury

6

8

9

11

25

6

7

6

2

5

150

- causing injury

384

312

374

410

393

261

241

263

304

343

13

- damage to property

709

654

586

725

638

431

356

352

312

326

4

- no injury/damage

71

83

83

75

88

116

46

48

18

27

50

Used as a blunt instrument

14

12

13

9

10

9

15

14

12

17

42

Used to threaten

648

594

570

399

448

327

245

233

199

189

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Other uses

127

110

153

92

48

37

75

117

91

123

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