The country with the second-highest gun ownership is Yemen, with between 33 and 50 firearms per 100 people, followed by Finland. The 15 countries of the EU have an estimated 84 million firearms. Of that, 67 million (80%) are in civilian hands. With a total EU population of 375 million people, this amounts to 17.4 guns for every 100 people.
Gun friendly countries.
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trooper
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Germany is not really gun-friendly... however, there are about 20 millions legal firearms in private hands (in a population of about 80 millions).
Acceptable "needs" are sporting and hunting, but not personal defense (unless you can prove that you are especially threatened). Almost no carry permits are issued.
Membership in a shooting association is pretty much compulsory. Lots of bureaucratic hoops and loops to jump through, but anybody who wants a gun can acquire one (if he puts a year of regular training and a couple of background checks and examinations into it).
There's a gun club in nearly every small town but many of them only shoot airguns and olympic-style smallbore. IDPA is illegal (it's considered combat training) and IPSC is under scrutiny right now.
Many people hunt over here as well. We have no caliber restrictions and most "evil black rifles" are allowed as long as they are civilian clones and not actual military weapons.
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Trooper
Acceptable "needs" are sporting and hunting, but not personal defense (unless you can prove that you are especially threatened). Almost no carry permits are issued.
Membership in a shooting association is pretty much compulsory. Lots of bureaucratic hoops and loops to jump through, but anybody who wants a gun can acquire one (if he puts a year of regular training and a couple of background checks and examinations into it).
There's a gun club in nearly every small town but many of them only shoot airguns and olympic-style smallbore. IDPA is illegal (it's considered combat training) and IPSC is under scrutiny right now.
Many people hunt over here as well. We have no caliber restrictions and most "evil black rifles" are allowed as long as they are civilian clones and not actual military weapons.
Regards,
Trooper
T.Stahl
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Didn't the BKA (German equiv. of the FBI) estimate say that there are ~20,000,000 illegal permit-requiring (or banned) and ~10,000,000 legal permit-requiring guns in Germany alone? Plus who-knows-how-many permit-free gas-guns and air-guns.
trooper
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10 millions, 20 millions... whatever 
Not enough, anyway... I used to know a guy whose favourite line was "A K98 and a Luger P 08 belong in every German household..."
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Trooper
Not enough, anyway... I used to know a guy whose favourite line was "A K98 and a Luger P 08 belong in every German household..."
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Trooper
T.Stahl
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Not enough? Not enough in the right hands! Not enough with the right liberties in the right hands even more so!
BTW, does it have to be a K98 and a P08? Neither nor in this household, only a Glock, an Enfield, two HKs, a Swede and a Remington 700.
BTW, does it have to be a K98 and a P08? Neither nor in this household, only a Glock, an Enfield, two HKs, a Swede and a Remington 700.
jefnvk
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Whats Switzerland's Crime rate? Seems antis would have brought the country up if it were high at all, totheir more guns= more crime argument.
Skytrooper
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Hawk, I've visited the area in Bangkok you indicated in your post. It consists of two full blocks of door-to-door gun stores. Most of the stores are fairly small with relatively few firearms visible in display windows. Considering how few customers I saw, I wondered how the stores remained in business.
There are shooting ranges in Pattaya and Phuket geared to tourists using rented firearms. When I drove by the range on Phuket, I noticed large Springfield Armory signs displayed. I understand Japanese tourists in Thailand (and in the U.S.) really enjoy the opportunity to shoot firearms, especially handguns, since they're effectively prohibited in Japan.
There are shooting ranges in Pattaya and Phuket geared to tourists using rented firearms. When I drove by the range on Phuket, I noticed large Springfield Armory signs displayed. I understand Japanese tourists in Thailand (and in the U.S.) really enjoy the opportunity to shoot firearms, especially handguns, since they're effectively prohibited in Japan.
Tom Bri
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I recall an editorial I read in a Thai newspaper some years back. It could have been written line by line from a NRA press release. All about how if assault rifles are banned then only criminals can get them, and how law abiding citizens are just that, law abiding, and should therefore be allowed to own guns etc etc etc.
So I guess that Thailand is pretty gun friendly, or it was ten years ago anyway. I saw a guy carrying a 1911 in a bar. Not a cop.
So I guess that Thailand is pretty gun friendly, or it was ten years ago anyway. I saw a guy carrying a 1911 in a bar. Not a cop.
jeff-10
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I went to Costa Rica in the eary 90s and I remember seeing firearms out in the open. I also seem to remember some gun shops there. I am not sure how it is now.
burbanite
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SpinnerThey'll never let me back in again...
Mannlicher
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There is no other country in the world, where gun ownership is as open, and available for the average guy, as America. Period.
Honduras
Honduras must have rather liberal gun laws, or are unable to enforce their laws. As of a few years ago, many shops were protected by hired security carrying M-16's, or AK's. My sponsors, two nuns, said that Contra weapons had flooded the country. Many criminal elements were robbing merchants at gunpoint. The merchants responded by hiring armed security. My comment regarding enforcement stems from an observation. Many police didn't have cars. They would try to stop trucks for inspection, but if the trucker didn't want to stop, the police were unable to pursue on their bicycles. So, not so sure that the police are able to enforce the local law.
Honduras must have rather liberal gun laws, or are unable to enforce their laws. As of a few years ago, many shops were protected by hired security carrying M-16's, or AK's. My sponsors, two nuns, said that Contra weapons had flooded the country. Many criminal elements were robbing merchants at gunpoint. The merchants responded by hiring armed security. My comment regarding enforcement stems from an observation. Many police didn't have cars. They would try to stop trucks for inspection, but if the trucker didn't want to stop, the police were unable to pursue on their bicycles. So, not so sure that the police are able to enforce the local law.
otomik
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Tavo94 posted this on another thread:
"Guns law here in Panama are pretty liberal, anybody can buy one as long as they meet the criteria:
18 years old,
No prior record,
Pay 33.00 for a 3 year CWP or 55.00 for a 5 year CWP,
Take a DNA test (free, government pays for it)
Take a sicological test, saying that the person is mentally stable.
That´s its. Sounds like much but it pretty easy.
Most weapons are permitted, the restricted ones are, all full automatic pistols (glock 18, Berreta 93), and rifles (M16, AK47, FAL). In caliber restrictions there is non, and high capacity are permitted."
"Guns law here in Panama are pretty liberal, anybody can buy one as long as they meet the criteria:
18 years old,
No prior record,
Pay 33.00 for a 3 year CWP or 55.00 for a 5 year CWP,
Take a DNA test (free, government pays for it)
Take a sicological test, saying that the person is mentally stable.
That´s its. Sounds like much but it pretty easy.
Most weapons are permitted, the restricted ones are, all full automatic pistols (glock 18, Berreta 93), and rifles (M16, AK47, FAL). In caliber restrictions there is non, and high capacity are permitted."
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