SELF-DEFENSE TRAINING

Gun Fight Statistics

• Ninety percent of gunfights occur at 7 yards or less (50 percent being at 5 to 10 feet);

• Whoever gets the first solid hit to the chest has an 85 percent chance of winning;

• Movement will decrease your chances of being hit by 70 percent;

• New York Police Department shooting stats show a felon’s hit percentage from 50 to 70 percent under 10 feet and 7 percent at 10 to 12 yards;

• Multiple assailants are involved in 65 to 70 percent of shootings –multiple attackers in 50 percent of police assaults;

• In 40 years of NYPD gunfights, 38 percent or more have been onehanded shooting;

• Experts were only 10 percent more accurate than novices between 3 and 15 feet;

• And if you stand still, you have an 85 percent chance of being hit and a 51 percent chance of being shot in the torso.