Clarifying FBI data

[TheGloriousTachikoma]

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/uc...s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8

Say what you will about FBI and the government, but if you have an alternative source of data that the 'antis' will trust, please point me.

My question is the 'Firearms, Type not stated' category. I'm assuming that the FBI would lump Kalashnaclones and AR-15s into 'rifles', but what of that conspicuously large category? Is it simply cases where the bullet cannot be found/identified? Or perhaps does that cover quote-unquote assault weapons?

Also, does there exist any verifiable or reputable source on how many rounds were expended in a particular homicide? (ie, how many people were killed by bullet #11+ from the perpetrators gun).

I'm just trying to put together some stuff to keep tucked away for argumentative purposes.

Thank you for the time.

 

[fanchisimo]

I wondered what that category consists of too. I considered .22LR cause it can be fired from a pistol or a rifle and they couldn't find the weapon to specify. Then that could be other calibers, too. Your "lost bullet" idea might be it too. I just don't know.

 

[Screamin'Eagle]

That's the beauty of being ambiguous. They can tweak the facts to get what they want.

 

[Gtscotty]

Soo.... twice as many people were killed last year with bare hands as with rifles. I'll have to pocket that one for the next time someone tells me that our population is getting mowed down in vast numbers by these darned Assault weapons.

 

[TheGloriousTachikoma]

@Franchismo, that sounds reasonable. Wasn't there data finding that more people are killed by 22LR than any other caliber? I dunno if there are more rifles or pistols in 22.

 

[ErikO]

Acording to a CJ101 course I took a...few years ago, the 'other' category was based off of bullet fragments and no weapon recovered. If a weapon was recovered and the bullets recovered 'could' have come from the weapon recovered it would be classified by weapon type.

 

[TheGloriousTachikoma]

Thanks Erik