I was surprised to hear from the BBC article about the Finnish school shooting that Finland has the third highest rate of gun ownership in the world, with 56 guns for every 100 people. I also wondered what the U.S. stats are like. So I dug around the Small Arms Survey’s annual report, and found the following chart:

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That’s almost one gun for everybody! The chart came from the Chapter 2 summary of the report, which contains more sobering statistics.