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Table 27
Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed
Type of Weapon, 2001–2010
Type of weapon | Total | 20011 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
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Number of victim officers | 541 | 70 | 56 | 52 | 57 | 55 | 48 | 58 | 41 | 48 | 56 |
Total firearms | 498 | 61 | 51 | 45 | 54 | 50 | 46 | 56 | 35 | 45 | 55 |
Handgun | 362 | 46 | 38 | 34 | 36 | 42 | 36 | 39 | 25 | 28 | 38 |
Rifle | 99 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 15 | 15 |
Shotgun | 36 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Type of firearm not reported | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Knife or other cutting instrument | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bomb | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Blunt instrument | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Personal weapons | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Vehicle | 36 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- 1The deaths of the 72 law enforcement officers that resulted from the events of September 11, 2001, are not included in this table.