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Aggravated assault is defined by the FBI as “an unlawful attack by one person upon another wherein the offender uses a dangerous weapon or displays it in a threatening manner or the victim suffers obvious severe or aggravated bodily injury, or where there was a risk for serious injury/intent to seriously injure.”
Approximately a third of aggravated assault offenses reported to the FBI involve one or more firearms.
This infographic uses National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) estimates to look at aggravated assault with a firearm in the United States from 2022 to 2024 and uses reported figures to compare aggravated assault with and without a firearm for the same period.
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Per the Bureau of Justice Statistics, approximately half of violent crimes are reported to law enforcement. The reporting of violent crime has ranged from the low 40s to 49 percent for the last full report. Thus, this report may be skewed towards more serious cases.
Note that according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, approximately 10 percent of crimes involve firearms. This figure will obviously be different based on the crime involved.
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