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Gun laws and policies, collectively referred to as firearms regulation or gun control, regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, and use of small arms by civilians. [1] Laws of some countries may afford civilians a right to keep and bear arms , and have more liberal gun laws than neighboring jurisdictions.
Table of homicide rates from firearms. All the data in this table is from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). [2] There are 2 countries in the UNODC dataset that are missing from the table below: Egypt (2.062 rate in 2011) and India (0.297 rate in 2012). Asterisk (*) in Location column indicates a Crime in LOCATION article.
Gun control in Germany. In Germany, access to guns is controlled by the German Weapons Act (German: Waffengesetz), which adheres to the European Firearms Directive and was first enacted in 1972, and superseded by the law of 2003. This federal statute regulates the handling of firearms and ammunition as well as acquisition, storage, commerce and ...
The actual number of guns per 100 persons may vary to more, with an unestimated number of illegal firearms held by civilians, around to 9 to 15 million.[ 14 ] ^ Poland.The number of registered firearms in 2017 survey (380k) is taken from official data for the year 2014,[ 15 ] even if data for the year 2016 (426k) should have been already ...
STORY: How are Brazil’s loose gun laws making it easier for gangs to obtain assault weapons?Since far-right President Jair Bolsonaro was elected in 2018 and began loosening gun laws, the number ...
Australia. [] All police in Australia carry firearms which are personally issued to them. This usually includes detectives and highway patrol officers. The firearm most commonly issued is the Glock semi-automatic handgun. The Australian police forces are monitored by the Australian Institute of Criminology, which has recorded police shooting ...
Gun violence and gun laws have played out differently in other countries around the world. One notable example is just across the pond in the U.K. The United Kingdom has one of the lowest rates of ...
Switzerland thus has a relatively high gun ownership rate.There are no official statistics, and estimates vary considerably. The 2017 report from Small Arms Survey has estimated that the number of civilian-held firearms in Switzerland is 2,332,000, which given a population of 8.4 million corresponds to a gun ownership of around 27.6 guns per 100 residents.