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Americans own 40 percent of world's firearms: study
Link: http://www.orrazz.com/2018/06/americans-own-40-percent-of-worlds.html
Americans make up only four percent of the global population but they own 40 percent of the world's firearms, a new study said Monday.There are more than one billion firearms in the world, 85 percent of those are in the hands of civilians, with the remainder held by law enforcement and the military, according to the Small Arms Survey.
The survey, produced by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, says its estimates based on multiple sources, including civilian firearms registration data from 133 countries and territories and survey results in 56 countries.
Of the 857 million guns owned by civilians, 393 million are in the United States - more than all of the firearms held by ordinary citizens in the other top 25 countries combined.
"Ordinary American people buy approximately 14 million new and imported guns every year.
Americans have access to powerful firearms that are not available in many other countries due to tighter legislation.
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