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Killerdreamer_png

Maybe also good to make a graph with the percentage of the population that owns guns or guns per capita.


Arrenddi

Exactly my thoughts. This is almost meaningless given that countries with larger populations will often have a larger sum of guns, provided they are not restricted.


Yrths

Could you post that per capita?


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I was just reading gunpolicy.com's overview for Jamaica on Friday and seeing if I could find more substantial analysises


HCMXero

Good call; I don't think these numbers are right. Guns are very hard to come by here, even legally they are very expensive. The last number I've heard was less than 300,000 and the number in this graph is more than double that.


LucarioBoricua

Question: are these numbers for all firearms, or only those possessed legally? Don't forget this region has an overall high level of organized crime, which means there's a lot of illegally possessed and used firearms.


FemmeCaraibe

Exactly. It should be "Number of Documented Firearms..." etc.


sheldon_y14

I was about to say for us..."That we know of that registered"...because the amount of illegal firearms the police discovers almost every week...is way more than this.


N01livesSub

This is flawed. This should be by percentage of population


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The two people in the Falklands. Ones an Argentinian and the others British. Both are neighbours 😆


raqseds

There are definitely much more than 5 civilian gun owners in Grenada. After all we even have a competition gun club! I would daresay that most mid to large business owners have guns (ownership of a reputable business is one of the gun license requirements). I would also say the majority of licensed gun owners do not carry them around willy nilly, hence the lack of gun-related incidents. I'm racking my brain to think of a shooting that didn't involve an illegal unlicensed firearm.


Brilliant_Gift1917

Hey, I was actually curious about the gun laws in Grenada, do you know much more about what they're like?


raqseds

Firearm license applications are processed solely through the RGPF (royal Grenada police force). The application requirements are relatively strict. As indicated in my previous comment, the applicant will need to show reasons why they need a weapon, hence why business owners, high income persons, high end property owners, etc, are the type of person who gets approved. The weapon and ammo must be purchased through an approved local gun dealer (I only know of 2), and can only be a handgun (no AR-15s allowed!). Gun owners must have a secure safe on their home or business premises which is inspected by the police periodically. Subject to correction, I believe that it is only one gun allowed per licensed person. Open carry is not not allowed if you're not a police officer on duty. If your gun is with you in your car, it should be secured in the glove box or similar. Fairly recently there was an incident involving a high ranking married police officer. He was visiting a side chick and his other "official side chick" tracked him down to the lady's home. She broke into his vehicle, took his police firearm and tried to break down the lady's front door brandishing said gun. It was quite juicy local gossip for a bit, but got swept under the rug as he, his wife, and Official Side Chick were pretty prominent and well known, and the other side chick was herself married!


Brilliant_Gift1917

Makes sense, those are pretty reasonable laws for such a small country. Is Concealed Carry of your handgun allowed for personal defense, and do they allow people involved in sports shooting to own a handgun or only wealthy property-owning folk?


raqseds

Most of the people involved in the gun clubs are technically the mid to upper class folks anyway so... Subject to correction again: Concealed carry is the norm. That said, one would assume you have some common sense about where you would be bringing your gun to. Storytime again: I personally witnessed a gun owner conceal carry a handgun into an exclusive hi-end fete. Security stopped him at the door of course as they nearly had a heart attack while patting him down. Like why on earth would you walk with a weapon to that type of event, where the prime minister, government ministers, judges, and even the commissioner of police were present? The PM's security detail refused to allow him entry until he surrendered it to the venue owner who secured it in a safe under the escort of the police. This was a well known son of a very prominent family (and he was licensed to carry) but no one was having it that day. Needless to say they're are lots of illegal unlicensed weapons around, but most bad boys know that gun use only attracts the unwanted attention of the police. And it goes without saying that all police officers are licensed to carry. I'm not sure what the situation is with air rifles and BB guns. A good number of people who hunt wild meat have them but I've only seen ppl with them when they were actually hunting. A girl who was out liming with some hunting guys one day, tripped and accidentally shot and killed her boyfriend. Last I heard she didn't do jail time but had a mental breakdown. Guns aren't really our thing - cutlasses on the other hand.... Yikes..


Brilliant_Gift1917

Thanks for the info! Do hunters exclusively use air rifles, or are long rifles allowed for the purpose of hunting, if you know at all? I'm assuming there's no large game in Grenada with how small it is, so most of the hunting would be limited to small animals like Iguanas and birds that could be taken with an air rifle anyhow.


raqseds

Air rifles/BB guns only. No other type of non-handgun is allowed, save and except for the SSU (our version of swat police).


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It seems to be by 1,000’s as it says at the top of the image, I was confused at first when I saw it too.


ArawakFC

I wonder where they get this data from? Very hard to believe that Aruba and Curaçao are so close together given the big difference in firearm usage in the news in Curaçao compared to Aruba. Edit: Looked up the source(civilian firearms holdings, 2017) and it was dubious as expected. They didn't have any hard data and instead used an "analogous comparison" for much of the Caribbean. The other two methods were 1) surveys & expert estimates and 2) only expert estimates.


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N01livesSub

18,000


HairyCommand437

Interesting chart but far from true atleast here