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Firearms and violent crime in Canada, 2016
Table 1
Victims of police-reported firearm-related violent crime, by type of firearm, 2009 to 2016

Table 1
Victims of police-reported firearm-related violent crime, by type of firearm, 2009 to 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported firearm-related violent crime. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Handgun, Rifle or shotgun, Other firearm, Firearm-like weapon or unknown type of firearm and Total firearm-related violent crime, calculated using number, percent, rate and percent of total violent crime units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Handgun			Rifle or shotgun			Other firearm^{Table 1 Note 1}			Firearm-like weapon or unknown type of firearm^{Table 1 Note 2}			Total firearm-related violent crime
Year	number	percent	rate^{Table 1 Note 3}	number	percent	rate^{Table 1 Note 3}	number	percent	rate^{Table 1 Note 3}	number	percent	rate^{Table 1 Note 3}	number	percent of total violent crime^{Table 1 Note 4}	rate^{Table 1 Note 3}
2009	4,590	62.7	17.9	977	13.3	3.8	360	4.9	1.4	1,395	19.1	5.5	7,322	2.3	28.6
2010	3,356	55.8	13.0	1,083	18.0	4.2	262	4.4	1.0	1,311	21.8	5.1	6,012	1.9	23.3
2011	3,251	56.9	12.5	916	16.0	3.5	277	4.8	1.1	1,269	22.2	4.9	5,713	2.0	21.9
2012	3,307	57.1	12.5	942	16.3	3.6	244	4.2	0.9	1,296	22.4	4.9	5,789	2.1	21.9
2013	3,005	58.5	11.2	857	16.7	3.2	236	4.6	0.9	1,036	20.2	3.9	5,134	2.0	19.2
2014	3,460	60.7	12.8	885	15.5	3.3	212	3.7	0.8	1,142	20.0	4.2	5,699	2.3	21.0
2015	4,125	60.5	15.1	1,141	16.7	4.2	306	4.5	1.1	1,244	18.3	4.5	6,816	2.7	24.9
2016	4,249	60.2	15.3	1,226	17.4	4.4	295	4.2	1.1	1,286	18.2	4.6	7,056	2.8	25.5
Percent change from 2013 to 2016	41.4	Note ...: not applicable	36.7	43.1	Note ...: not applicable	38.3	25.0	Note ...: not applicable	20.8	24.1	Note ...: not applicable	20.0	37.4	Note ...: not applicable	32.8
Percent change from 2009 to 2016	-7.4	Note ...: not applicable	-14.5	25.5	Note ...: not applicable	15.9	-18.1	Note ...: not applicable	-24.3	-7.8	Note ...: not applicable	-14.8	-3.6	Note ...: not applicable	-11.0
... not applicable Note 1 Includes fully-automatic firearms and sawed-off rifles and/or shotguns. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes all weapons that do not meet the Criminal Code definition of a firearm and that are capable of propelling any object through a barrel by means of gunpowder, CO2 (compressed carbon dioxide), or pumped air, such as flare guns, pellet guns, or starter's pistols. Also includes all firearm-related violent crime where the specific type of firearm was unknown. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Percent calculation excludes incidents where the most serious weapon present was reported as unknown. Return to note 4 referrer Note: Excludes Quebec due to a large proportion of cases where the most serious weapon present was reported as unknown. Percentage calculations exclude cases where the weapon is unknown. In order to facilitate comparisons over time, a specific Trend Database is maintained. This database contains only those police services who have consistently responded to the Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey over the entire period of the database (2009 to 2016). As a result, there are some slight differences between the numbers from the trend database, used for making comparisons over time, and from the data for the individual year 2016, used when discussing characteristics of police-reported violent crime in Canada. Using the trend database, police services who have consistently reported to the UCR Survey each year over the seven year period reported 7,056 victims of firearm-related violent crime in 2016. Using only the 2016 data, police services reported 7,104 victims of firearm-related crime. This is the reason for the differences in the numbers of firearm-related victims in this table when compared to other tables and charts. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2018-06-28