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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2019 Sep;87(3):531–540. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002399

TABLE 1.

Yearly Totals of California Gun Sales and Fatalities

Year Gun Sales % Change From Prior Total Fatalities Suicide Homicide

1996 332,133 * * *
1997 337,785 1.7 * * *
1998 330,675 −2.1 * ,* *
1999 500,041 51.2 3054 1,532 1,380
2000 376,234 −24.8 3108 1,487 1,483
2001 346,752 −7.8 3200 1,450 1,589
2002 344,360 −0.7 3410 1,490 1,810
2003 283,955 −17.5 3468 1,505 1,782
2004 308,095 8.5 3316 1,366 1,808
2005 377,131 22.4 3453 1,329 1,878
2006 376,881 −0.1 3363 1,319 1,883
2007 373,502 −0.9 3268 1,422 1,701
2008 429,189 14.9 3171 1,478 1,569
2009 489,735 14.1 3094 1,519 1,460
2010 505,589 3.2 2935 1,492 1,342
2011 607,876 20.2 3004 1,564 1,314
2012 815,629 34.2 3068 1,549 1,362
2013 953,916 17.0 3026 1,571 1,312
2014 936,471 −1.8 2942 1,582 1,233
2015 891,862 −4.8 3095 1,559 1,396
Total 9,917,811 168.5** 53975 25,214 26,302
*

CDC Wonders data only available beginning in 1999.

**

% change from 1996 to 2015.