Australian crime rates by weapon used from ABS report 4510.0 table 10
	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	Avg 1993-1996	Avg 1997-2002	% increase
Rates per 100k population
MURDER
Firearm	0.33	0.27	0.32	0.54	0.4	0.29	0.33	0.31	0.26	0.21	0.37	0.3	-18.16
Other weapon	0.72	0.69	0.77	0.7	0.86	0.75	0.8	0.66	0.69	0.56	0.72	0.72	-0.29
Total	1.15	1.02	1.18	1.33	1.31	1.08	1.17	0.99	0.96	0.85	1.17	1.06	-9.36
No weapon used	0.53	0.59	0.63	0.38	0.43	0.44	0.64	0.65	0.64	0.77	0.53	0.6	12.19
Total	1.68	1.61	1.8	1.7	1.73	1.52	1.81	1.64	1.6	1.61	1.7	1.65	-2.63
ATTEMPTED MURDER
Weapon used
Firearm	0.59	0.44	0.44	0.57	0.49	0.4	0.6	0.63	0.68	0.44	0.51	0.54	5.2
Other weapon	1.03	0.97	0.79	0.86	1.01	1.33	0.91	1.07	1.23	0.97	0.91	1.09	18.94
Total	1.77	1.48	1.24	1.49	1.5	1.74	1.51	1.7	1.92	1.51	1.5	1.65	10.04
No weapon used	0.3	0.4	0.42	0.34	0.22	0.33	0.39	0.35	0.45	0.5	0.36	0.37	2.43
Total	2.07	1.88	1.66	1.83	1.72	2.07	1.9	2.05	2.37	2.01	1.86	2.02	8.55
ASSAULT
Firearm weapon used			3.69	3.59	4.4	3.55	3.38	4.07	4.47	3.43	3.64	3.88	6.68
Other weapon			49.54	56.92	61.02	64.74	73.26	76.7	83.54	94.09	53.23	75.56	41.94
Total			55.45	63.57	68.28	71.42	79.8	83.08	90.6	100.79	59.51	82.33	38.34
No weapon used			507.43	559.78	603.74	627.61	629.39	640.9	693.98	709.09	533.61	650.79	21.96
Total			562.88	623.35	672.03	699.04	709.19	723.97	784.58	809.88	593.12	733.11	23.6
SEXUAL ASSAULT
Weapon used
Firearm	0.15	0.09	0.12	0.11	0.18	0.13	0.16	0.15	0.19	0.14	0.12	0.16	32.91
Other weapon	1.03	0.84	1.17	1.37	1.38	1.5	1.28	1.27	1.43	1.19	1.1	1.34	22.02
Total	1.26	0.96	1.35	1.52	1.6	1.66	1.48	1.44	1.65	1.35	1.27	1.53	20.03
No weapon used	67.76	70.27	71.14	77.88	75.88	74.9	73.02	80.82	85.4	89.26	71.76	79.88	11.31
Total	69.02	71.23	72.49	79.41	77.47	76.56	74.49	82.25	87.06	90.61	73.04	81.41	11.46
KIDNAPPING/ABDUCTION
Firearm weapon used	0.14	0.12	0.07	0.14	0.11	0.14	0.32	0.26	0.36	0.17	0.12	0.23	92.88
Other weapon	0.2	0.27	0.2	0.23	0.25	0.39	0.61	0.49	0.48	0.45	0.23	0.45	96.06
Total	0.35	0.41	0.28	0.38	0.37	0.53	0.95	0.76	0.84	0.66	0.36	0.69	92.02
No weapon used	3.21	2.64	2.26	2.24	2.66	3.23	3.1	2.86	3.11	2.87	2.59	2.97	14.88
Total	3.56	3.06	2.54	2.62	3.03	3.76	4.05	3.62	3.95	3.53	2.94	3.66	24.25
ROBBERY
Firearm weapon used	11.23	10.13	8.08	8.65	11.79	10.2	7.6	6.92	8.78	5.93	9.53	8.54	-10.39
Other weapon	17.38	15.5	17.41	22	32.49	42.33	37.92	39.41	43.39	28.87	18.07	37.4	106.98
Total	29.98	28.25	29.1	34.16	48.87	57.94	49.92	49.5	57.87	39.68	30.37	50.63	66.7
No weapon used	42.32	49.95	51.5	55.24	66.13	69.16	69.48	72.3	79.13	66.72	49.75	70.49	41.67
Total	72.3	78.2	80.6	89.4	115	127.1	119.4	121.8	137	106.4	80.13	121.12	51.16
Number of victims
MURDER
Firearm	59	49	58	99	75	54	62	60	50	42
Other weapon	127	123	139	129	159	140	151	126	134	110
Total	203	182	213	243	242	203	221	190	186	167
No weapon used	93	106	113	69	79	82	122	125	125	151
Total	296	288	326	312	321	285	343	315	311	318
ATTEMPTED MURDER
Weapon used
Firearm	105	79	80	104	90	75	113	120	132	87
Other weapon	181	174	143	158	187	249	172	205	239	191
Total	312	265	224	273	277	326	285	326	373	297
No weapon used	53	71	76	62	41	61	74	67	87	99
Total	365	336	300	335	318	387	359	393	460	396
ASSAULT
Firearm weapon used	na	na	667	657	815	665	639	780	868	675
Other weapon	na	na	8952	10424	11305	12124	13870	14695	16215	18535
Total	na	na	10020	11642	12650	13375	15109	15917	17585	19855
No weapon used	na	na	91690	102514	111850	117528	119162	122791	134698	139693
Total	na	na	101710	114156	124500	130903	134271	138708	152283	159548
SEXUAL ASSAULT
Weapon used
Firearm	27	16	22	20	33	25	30	28	37	27
Other weapon	181	150	211	251	256	281	243	244	277	235
Total	223	171	244	279	296	311	280	275	321	265
No weapon used	11963	12551	12855	14263	14057	14025	13824	15484	16576	17585
Total	12186	12722	13099	14542	14353	14336	14104	15759	16897	17850
KIDNAPPING/ABDUCTION
Firearm weapon used	25	21	13	25	21	26	60	49	69	34
Other weapon	36	49	36	43	47	73	116	94	94	89
Total	62	74	51	70	69	100	180	145	164	130
No weapon used	566	472	408	410	493	605	586	548	603	566
Total	628	546	459	480	562	705	766	693	767	696
ROBBERY
Firearm weapon used	1983	1810	1460	1585	2185	1910	1438	1325	1704	1168
Other weapon	3068	2768	3145	4029	6019	7926	7180	7550	8422	5687
Total	5294	5045	5258	6256	9054	10850	9452	9483	11233	7817
No weapon used	7471	8922	9306	10116	12251	12951	13154	13853	15358	13144
Total	12765	13967	14564	16372	21305	23801	22606	23336	26591	20961
Population (*100,000)	176.56	178.61	180.69	183.13	185.26	187.26	189.33	191.59	194.09	197