Around "50,000 Swedes own handguns"
The National Police Board, which examined the weapons registry, said there are 140,000 licensed handguns in the country, with most owners possessing three guns, The Local reported.
Investigators believe there are 5,000 to 10,000 illegal handguns in the country, the newspaper said.
If there are about 6.5 million adults, that means that a little less than one percent of Swedes legally own handguns. It is interesting that the average Swede with handguns owns three of them.
Labels: Foreign, GunControl
posted by John Lott at 12:53 PM
1 Comments:
I'd be interested to know how they estimated the illegal population.
The only half sensible way I've seen it done is to measure the "Mortality" rate over time and to estimate the size of population required to give those figures.
It sounds like Sweden's govt is using Finland as an excuse. I wonder if they ever read your paper on multiple public shootings?
Keith
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