List of countries by gun ownership
- List of countries by gun ownership
This is a list of countries by number of guns divided by number of residents.[cite news| author = Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross, Martin Killias, Urs Hepp, Erika Gadola, Matthias Bopp, Christoph Lauber, Ulrich Schnyder, Felix Gutzwiller, Wulf Rössler | title = Firearm suicides and the availability of firearms: analysis of longitudinal international data | date = 2006-06-28 | publisher =Poster presented at the European Congress of Epidemiology, Utrecht | url = http://www.puk-west.unizh.ch/en/publikationen/suicide.shtml ] ][cite news| author = Martin Killias | title = Gun Ownership, Suicide and Homicide: An International Perspective | date = 1993 | url = http://www.unicri.it/wwk/publications/books/series/understanding/19_GUN_OWNERSHIP.pdf] ][cite news| author = Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies| title = Small Arms Survey 2007| date = 2007-09 | publisher =Cambridge | url = http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/files/sas/publications/year_b_pdf/2007/CH2%20Stockpiles.pdf| ISBN = 9780521880398] [ [http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/files/sas/publications/year_b_pdf/2007/2007SAS_English_press_kit/2007SASCh2_summary_en.pdf Small Arms Survey 2007 Part 2] ] ]The numbers are an estimation based on dividing the total amount of guns in a nation by the total population of that nation. As many people possess multiple weapons and many others possess none, this number is not a representation of the percentage of people who possess guns in each nation.
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* Gun politics
* List of countries by firearm-related death rate
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