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Montevideo, Uruguay, August 2006. © Andres Stapff/Reuters  \nCompleting the Count  \nCIVILIAN FIREARMS  \nINTRODUCTION   \nSeparated by geography, culture, religion, education, and wealth, the people of Ireland and Yemen could hardly be more different. Superficially, their small arms problems are equally dissimilar: Ireland has a moderate level of civilian gun ownership and little gun violence; Yemen is one of the most heavily armed and most violent societies on earth.  \nBut observers in both countries describe their national small arms problems in remarkably similar language. Two dramatically different societies are united by a common sense that the proliferation of firearms is a basic challenge to social cohesion and future prosperity. Both are affected by swift changes in domestic gun violence patterns and global small arms proliferation. Increasingly, authorities in both countries are turning to similar solutions: trying torestrain possession, encouraging citizens to get rid of their guns, and attempting to restore the ability of national institutions to reduce violence (see Boxes 2.2 and 2.3) .  \nCompared to small arms proliferation elsewhere, Ireland’s problems might seem quaint and Yemen’s extreme, but they are united by the universal challenge posed by small arms to society. Like people in many other places, the Irish and Yemenis feel compelled to reconsider popular assumptions and official policies in order to catch up with social forces otherwise beyond their control. And like many other states, these countries are grappling with trends that are felt more than understood.  \nThe relationship between society and small arms is changing the world over. Small arms are proliferating virtually everywhere. And it is civilian ownership, the focus of this chapter, that appears to be changing most rapidly. Among the major findings of this chapter are the following:  \n• Civilians own approximately 650 million firearms worldwide, roughly 75 per cent of the known total. Civilians in the United States own some 270 million of these.  \n• There are at least 875 million combined civilian, law enforcement, and military firearms in the world today.  \n• This is equal to roughly one gun for every seven people worldwide (without the United States, the figure drops to about one gun for every ten people) .  \n• These figures do not include older, pre-automatic small arms still maintained by armed forces or craft-produced civilian guns.  \n• Nearly 79 million civilian firearms are known to be registered with authorities, roughly 9 per cent of the suspected civilian total.  \n• The rising availability of handguns has transformed urban weapons ownership, while semi- or fully automatic rifles have transformed possession in urban and rural settings.  \n• Organized destruction projects have eliminated at least 8.5 million small arms since 1991, three-quarters of which came from armed services. An unknown number are also lost through accidental wastage.  \n2  \nRecent improvements in reporting and research allow for more accurate gun ownership estimates.  \n40 SMALL ARMS SURVEY 2007  \nAs the first detailed global assessment, this chapter offers the most complete outline so far of the global distribution of factory-made civilian firearms. Rather than a definitive statement, though, it should be regarded as part of a process of continuous investigation. The total of 650 million civilian firearms and 875 million in total is a significant increase over previous Small Arms Survey estimates. This does not represent a real increase in the number of firearms, rather it results from better global reporting, additional research and more effective research methods. More focused research is absolutely essential in order to transform the relatively crude map of global firearms into a more textured portrait. And research has only begun to explore relationships between weapons holding","cbCaigrRip60HNBD","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigrRip60HNBD","pdf",2118309,34,"English","# Introduction\n## Key findings on civilian firearms\n## Methods and limits of available data\n## Civil society and state roles in firearms holdings\n## Gun availability, violence, and research directions","[{\"question\":\"Why compare Ireland and Yemen in the civilian firearms chapter?\",\"answer\":\"The chapter argues that although the two societies differ greatly, observers describe their small-arms challenges in remarkably similar terms, linking proliferation to social cohesion and future prosperity.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the main quantitative findings about civilian firearms?\",\"answer\":\"The chapter reports that civilians own about 650 million firearms worldwide (roughly 75% of the known total) and that there are at least 875 million combined civilian, law enforcement, and military firearms globally.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the chapter address the relationship between gun availability and violence?\",\"answer\":\"It notes that the connection is controversial and does not resolve the debate; instead, it aims to facilitate investigation into when proliferation has marginal effects versus when it causes catastrophe.\"}]","Completing the Count - CIVILIAN FIREARMS - INTRODUCTION | PDF",1791016499,86]