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by NoImmatureAdHom 1891 days ago
Thanks for looking up these numbers. I have looked in to it before, and found [0], which implies about 50,000 self-defense uses of a firearm per year. Of course, not every self-defense use involves firing a shot, and not every shot fired ends up with a death.

0:https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf