Title: Small Arms Survey: Guns and the City

Publication Date: August 28, 2007

What does it say? The Small Arms Survey has been done annually since 2001. The purpose of the survey, which is funded in part by the Swiss government, is to describe the “global geography” of small arms (i. e., firearms and light weapons). The United States topped the list of countries in terms of guns per 100 people at 97.0 per 100 people, with a total estimate up to 290,000,000 firearms.

How can I use it?

This statistic is in line with past estimates of gun ownership in the United States. The saturation of the legal market for guns in the United States is one motivator for the gun industry to avoid common sense gun laws, which will reduce its ability to make money off the diversion of guns into the illegal market.

Citation Graduate Institute of International Studies. Small Arms Survey: Guns and the City (Geneva, Switzerland: 2007)

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