On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 08:00:38PM +0700, Roy Lanek wrote: > Summa summarum ... pigeonhole principle ... virtually every > Swiss household has one "registered weapon" as the minimum. > Hence I don't believe that Finland is "ranking third behind the > United States and Yemen." (By the way, where is Israel? Pro > memoria: Israel has a military service a' la Switzerland, with > the difference being that women are obliged to service too, no > just volunteers.)
The top 10 according to the Small Arms Survey 2007: http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/files/sas/publications/year_b_pdf/2007/CH2%20Stockpiles.pdf Country guns per 100 residents United States 90 Yemen 61 Finland 56 Switzerland 46 Iraq 39 Serbia 37.5 France 32 Canada 31.5 Sweden 31.5 Austria 31 This is civilian owned firearms, not military owned firearms, btw civilian owned firearms count for roughly 75% of all firearms. That 46 per 100 residents fits pretty well with the scenario that you have explained. Remko van der Vossen.
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