Update, Firearms Fatalities: Accident Rates in the USA 94% Reduction 1933 – 2017
U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- This article is an updated version of the article published in January of 2017. Since then, the CDC corrected the number of fatal firearm accidents for 2014, the error being found and pointed out by Dr. John Lott.
The reduction of fatal firearms accidents is one of the great, unnoticed success stories of the last 85 years. The rate of unintended firearm fatalities has been reduced by 94% since 1933.
It is not simple to determine the rate of fatal firearm accidents in the United States over the long term. In the chart above, three sources were used. The first precise numbers were collected in 1933.
Rates and numbers from 1933-1987 are available from Kleck, Point Blank Page 306 Table 7.1.
The numbers for 1981-2000 were found in An Analysis of Firearm-Related Accidents in the United States(pdf). Rates were calculated using Census figures.
From 1999-2017 numbers were available in WISQARS, population for per capital rates was taken from U.S. Census figures.
Source:: AmmoLand
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