In 1993, Dr. Gary Kleck, a criminologist from Florida State University, found that there were approximately two million cases of defensive gun use within the U.S. every year. A year later, the Department of Justice sponsored their own survey titled, “Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms”. In that study (which used a smaller sample size that Dr. Kleck), they estimated an average of 1.5 million cases of defensive gun use each year.