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Mortality Table E4.  Type of Firearm by Intent for Residents, 2006
  Total Handgun Rifle or Shotgun Other & Unspecified
Intent No. Crude Rate1 Age-Adj Rate2 No. Crude Rate1 Age-Adj Rate2 No. Crude Rate1 Age-Adj Rate2 No. Crude Rate1 Age-Adj Rate2
Total 539 8.5 8.3 274 4.3 4.2 93 1.5 1.4 172 2.7 2.7
Unintentional Injury (Accident) 9 0.1 0.1 3 * * 2 * * 4 * *
Self-Harm (Suicide) 392 6.1 6.1 260 4.1 4.0 78 1.2 1.2 54 0.8 0.9
Assault (Homicide) 121 1.9 1.9 7 0.1 0.1 13 0.2 0.2 101 1.6 1.6
Undetermined 8 0.1 0.1 4 * * 0 * * 4 * *
Legal Intervention 9 0.1 0.1 0 * * 0 * * 9 0.1 0.1
1 Rate per 100,000 population.
2 Rate per 100,000 age-adjusted to U.S. 2000 population.  Does not include deaths where age is unknown.
* Rate not calculated because number of deaths was less than 5.
Note:
Source for groups is the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10): Unintentional Injury (Accident), 
(Accident) (ICD-10: W32-W34); Self-Harm (Suicide) (ICD-10: X72-X74); Assault (Homicide) (ICD-10: X93-X95); 
Undetermined (ICD-10: Y22-Y24); Legal Intervention (ICD-10: Y35.0).
Rates based on fewer than 20 deaths are likely to be unstable and imprecise.
Source:  Center for Health Statistics, Washington State Department of Health, 01/2008.
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