Earlier: Rifle Murders Are So Rare, Florida Radiologist Had Only Ever Seen One Previous Case

From FBI crime statistics for the 71% of murder victims of 2014-2018 (sample size 49,808) for which there is a known and specified weapon:

Murder Victims 2014-2018 Known weapons 100.0% Handguns 64.1% Rifles 2.9% Shotguns 2.5% Knives or cutting instruments 15.6% Blunt objects (clubs, hammers, etc.) 4.5% Personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.)1 6.7% Poison 0.1% Explosives 0.0% Fire 0.7% Narcotics 0.9% Drowning 0.1% Strangulation 0.9% Asphyxiation 1.0%

Murder victims are 22 times more likely to be killed with a handgun as with a rifle, but most of the gun control energy in recent years has been paid to rifles.

[Comment at Unz.com]