Table 5
Victims of firearm-related intimate partner violence, by type of firearm present, Canada, 2010 to 2024

Table 5
Victims of police-reported firearm-related intimate partner violence, by type of firearm present, Canada, 2009 to 2024 Table summary
The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Fully automatic firearm, Sawed-off rifle or shotgun, Handgun, Rifle or shotgun, Firearm-like weapon or unknown type of firearm1 and Total, calculated using number, percent, number, percent, number, percent, number, percent, number, percent and number units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year Fully automatic firearm Sawed-off rifle or shotgun Handgun Rifle or shotgun Firearm-like weapon or unknown type of firearm Table 5 Note 1 Total
number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent number
Note 1

Includes firearm-like weapons (e.g., starter pistols, flare guns, air guns, ghost guns, BB guns) and unknown types of firearms. Also includes violent crime where the most serious violation was a firearm-specific violent offence (discharging a firearm with intent, use of a firearm in the commission of an offence, pointing a firearm) and the type of weapon was unknown.

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Note: Intimate partner violence includes incidents where the victim and the accused person were current or former legally married spouses, common-law partners, boyfriends, girlfriends, and dating partners, as well as any other type of intimate partner relationship (e.g., one-night stands). Counts are based on victims between the ages of 12 and 110. Victims whose age was reported as older than 110 years are excluded due to possible miscoding of unknown ages within this category. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (Trend database).
2010 to 2014 188 6 144 5 845 29 1,017 35 708 24 2,902
2010 41 7 36 6 170 30 203 36 117 21 567
2011 48 8 29 5 157 26 199 33 162 27 595
2012 34 6 33 6 171 29 218 36 144 24 600
2013 39 7 25 5 151 28 189 35 142 26 546
2014 26 4 21 4 196 33 208 35 143 24 594
2015 to 2019 179 5 193 5 1,174 32 1,296 35 865 23 3,707
2015 41 7 36 6 181 29 217 35 149 24 624
2016 38 5 35 5 200 29 255 36 171 24 699
2017 34 5 44 6 234 31 252 34 184 25 748
2018 40 5 35 5 265 35 271 35 157 20 768
2019 26 3 43 5 294 34 301 35 204 24 868
2020 to 2024 120 2 232 4 1,996 38 1,464 28 1,434 27 5,246
2020 21 2 48 5 368 38 308 31 236 24 981
2021 21 2 44 4 396 38 314 30 266 26 1,041
2022 28 3 47 5 398 39 283 28 271 26 1,027
2023 26 2 48 4 402 37 296 27 329 30 1,101
2024 24 2 45 4 432 39 263 24 332 30 1,096
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