2018 Numbers are in from the FBI – The AR rifles and other long guns are some of the safest items Americans own.

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2018 Numbers are in from the FBI – The AR rifles and other long guns are some of the safest items Americans own.

The FBI’s newest edition of Crime in the United States reveals that in 2018, rifles of all types were used to commit 297 murders. This is a decline from 2017’s revised figure of 390 (in the 2017 edition of Crime in the United States, the FBI had initially reported 403 murders). The years 2014, 2015, and 2016 also saw the murder figures involving rifles revised. 2014’s revision saw it go down from 258 to 235. The 2015 figure went down from 258 to 215. The revision from 2016 was very stark – it went down from 378 to 300.

 

The figures for shotguns are even lower for 2018. Those were only used in 235 murders last year. The figures for the previous four years were also revised. The 2017 figure stayed steady at 264. The 2016 figure was revised down to 247 from 264. 2015 saw a similar revision, from 272 to 247. 2014 saw a downward revision from 264 to 238.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/2018-numbers-are-in-from-the-fbi-the-ar-rifles-and-other-long-guns-are-some-of-the-safest-items-americans-own/