Civil rights

* UK banned private ownership of most handguns in 1997, previously held by an Rifles For Sale estimated 57,000 people—0.1% of the population. Since 1998, the decimal of people injured by firearms in England and Wales derelict more than doubled, despite a massive accretion in the googol of police personnel. In 2005-06, of 5,001 such injuries, 3,474 (69%) were defined as "slight," and a further 965 (19%) involved the "firearm" being used as a blunt instrument. Twenty-four percent of injuries were caused with air weapons, and 32% with "imitation firearms" (including BB ordnance and soft ventilation weapons). Since 1998, the folio of fatal shootings has-been varied between 49 and 97, and was 50 in 2005.