Table 4 gives the victim breakdown by age for 1994 and 1995. For the past four years, over half of all domestic violence related felonies resulted in minor or serious injury. Most of the injuries reported were categorized as minor. Chart 1 provides this victim injury data. Simple Assaults are not included in Chart 1.
Most simple assaults do involve physical injury.
In 1995, firearms were used in less than three percent of all domestic violence crimes compared with more than ten percent of non-domestic violence related incidents in the same categories. Table 5 gives the breakdown for 1995. Since July 1994, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement has maintained a domestic violence injunction database. This database currently contains 38,724 records. When an individual against whom an injunction has been filed and entered into the database attempts to purchase a firearm in the state, he or she will have the request denied during the background check conducted by the FDLE's Firearm Purchase Program.