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Originally Posted by Hugh
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What has the US got to do with this? This country has never really had any full-on gun culture as the US.
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In 2002/03 there were just under 10,250 non-air firearm offences in England & Wales and accounted for around 43% of all firearm offences. During the mid-2000s there was a slight increase in the number of non-air firearm offences recorded. Non-air firearm offences were around 8% higher in 2005/06 compared to 2002/03.
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And that is with a ban in place since 1997.
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In 2014/15 the Metropolitan police recorded the largest number of non-air firearm offences accounting for just over 33% of all non-air firearm offences in England & Wales. Compared to 2013/14 the number of non-air weapon offences recorded by the Metropolitan police increased by 3.6%.
West Midlands police had the highest rate of non-air firearm offences in 2014/15 (20 per 100,000 head of population) whilst Hertfordshire had the lowest (1 per 100,000 head of population)
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For the year ending March 2015 there were just over 1,000 non-air firearm offences in which an individual was injured. This is a decrease of 6% on the same period in 2014.
Of the occurrences where someone was injured only 2% (19) resulted in a fatal injury. There was a serious injury in 14% (146) of occurrences, and a slight injury in 84% (876).
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