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Comment by AltVanilla

I googled a bit. Officially Finland has 1.5 million firearms. Mainly for hunting and sport. Handguns make up only 0.2 million, which is about 13%.

Most all murders in Finland are done with a knife while drunk.

(The Finnish police, which keeps a database of firearm permits, objected to the mentioned study that Finland is ranked 3rd in the world. The study was updated and now Finland is ranked "only" 8th:

http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/T-Briefing-Pap... )

parent AltVanilla 8 years ago

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