Imagining Gun Control In America

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A link to a pdf file from the Wafe Field Law Review. A long read (55pages) but interesting.

http://lawreview.law.wfu.edu/documents/issue.43.837.pdf

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Americans own close to half the private firearms on
the planet.24

24. The 2003 Small Arms Survey estimated the worldwide total of privately
held guns at 639 million and put the high estimate for the U.S. inventory at 276
million. There were roughly 67 million guns in private hands in the European
Union. Estimates put the number of private guns in Afghanistan between 1.5
and 10 million. The Small Arms Survey estimates the total number of guns
(government and private) in sub-Saharan Africa at 30 million. SMALL ARMS
SURVEY, GRADUATE INST. OF INT’L STUDIES, SMALL ARMS SURVEY 2003:
DEVELOPMENT DENIED 57 (2003) [hereinafter SMALL ARMS SURVEY 2003].

http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/index.html

Contributing Partners
Established in 1999, the project is supported by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, and by sustained contributions from the Governments of Belgium, Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

The Survey is also grateful for past and current project support received from the Governments of Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, New Zealand, Spain, and the United States. Further funding has been provided by the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, the Geneva International Academic Network, and the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining.