Line chart with one line of the number of gun crimes. Crimes included are homicide, robbery and aggravated assault.
For crimes committed with firearms, the number began at 361,141 in 1973 and decreased to 301,590 in 1977. Then the number increased to 581,697 in 1993. It then fluctuates with a low of 338,535 in 1999, before increasing to 388,897 in 2006.