Officers Killed with own Gun vs Officers Feloniously Killed 1980 – 2014

By Dean Weingarten

Officers feloniously killed in U.S. (red) Killed with own gun (green)

A common worry amongst people considering open carry: a gun grab. They worry that someone will take their gun from them and use it against them. I have yet to find a case in the United States where that’s happened to an armed citizen who wasn’t a law officer. Cops almost always open carry, and some have been victims of gun grabs. As the graph above indicates, the numbers are vanishingly small. [Click here for a link to the data sources used to construct the graphic.] In the last 10 years the average number of officers killed with their own gun was . . .

2.2 per year. According to the FBI UCR numbers, the average of all officers feloniously killed is 50. Gun grabs account for 4.4 percent of officers feloniously killed in the last 10 years with their own weapons. The number of sworn police officers in the United States in that period has averaged about 523 thousand a year. So the rate of police open carriers who are killed with their own guns is about .42 …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns