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RECORDED CRIMES AND OFFENCES INVOLVING FIREARMS, SCOTLAND, 2001

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

Table 5A

Number & Percentage

How used

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

% change 00/01

Total

800

737

783

582

590

404

319

421

368

517

40

Fired

- fatal injury

6

8

9

11

25

6

7

6

2

5

150

- causing injury

40

43

52

55

61

26

26

34

48

144

200

- damage to property

26

40

34

67

57

38

34

62

76

96

26

- no injury/damage

36

33

42

31

27

36

13

34

7

15

114

Used as a blunt instrument

13

9

8

3

7

7

12

9

11

14

27

Used to threaten

581

513

505

337

378

268

186

195

167

148

-11

Other uses

98

91

133

78

35

23

41

81

57

95

67

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