I did once hear that Iceland doesn't have a standing army and its police force patrols unarmed
They have no armed forces, period. They have gun laws, I don't know how restrictive but I hear they have some good hunting.
Norwegian police also patrols unarmed, and we have a gun ownership rate comparable to the US. I guess that could conceivably be used as an argument against civilian ccw, after all if the police don't need guns, why should the rest of us need 'em? Carry permits do exist, though, but as some of the geezers around here would say, the paucity is notable.
NonServiam covers Norway pretty well, but I don't know about "a lot of" gun laws. There is really only one law with a number of articles and regulations, all collected in a small, thin booklet. It covers everything from pellet guns through firearms to hand grenades, flame throwers, bombs, mines, incendiaries etc. Some of those are legal, others not
. The law covers ownership, trading, manufacture, import, export and probably any other aspect you can think of. We have one national law, no local variations. Anyway, I would say we have considerably less than 20,000 gun laws.
I think we are better off than some US states, worse than others. Just like you guys, there are a lot of things about our legislation I do not like, but things are worse most other places. Now, that's depressing...
OTOH, a shooting buddy just mail ordered a suppressor for his SIG 551, we plan to test it as soon as it arrives. And my brother was just issued a new G3 he needs to sight in. NonServiam, you coming along? Last time your grin would have been 360 degrees if it wasn't for your ears.