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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.
Firearms regulation in Switzerland allows the acquisition of semi-automatic, and – with a may-issue permit – fully automatic firearms, by Swiss citizens and foreigners with or without permanent residence. [note 1][2] The laws pertaining to the acquisition of firearms in Switzerland are amongst the most liberal in the world. [3]
The 1938 German Weapons Act, the precursor of the current weapons law, superseded the 1928 law. As under the 1928 law, citizens were required to have a permit to carry a firearm and a separate permit to acquire a firearm. But under the new law: Gun restriction laws applied only to handguns, not to long guns or ammunition.
By comparison, gun death rates in countries like Canada (2.1 per 100,000) and Australia (1.0), as well as European nations such as France (2.7) and Spain (0.6), were far lower.
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 ...
The shooting, in a country where gun violence is rare, is the country’s deadliest in modern history. ... Gun laws in the Czech Republic . There are more than 1 million registered weapons in the ...
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 ...