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Duquet, Nils and Maarten Van Alstein. 2012 ‘Registered Gun Owners.’ Gun Ownership in Belgium; Section 2.1 (Table 1), pp. 4-5. Brussels: Flemish Peace Institute. 19 September
Relevant contents
Table 1: Number of active gun owners in the Central Weapons Registry, by province and type of identity, 2006 and 2010
Province: Natural persons 2006 - Legal persons 2006 - Natural persons 2010 - Legal persons 2010
Antwerp: 42,748 - 119 - 44,592 - 124
Brussels: 21,765 - 281 - 22,666 - 291
Hainaut: 73,409 - 108 - 75,214 - 111
Limburg: 27,584 - 64 - 29,180 - 77
Liège: 47,700 - 159 - 49,717 - 173
Luxembourg: 15,093 - 24 - 15,791 - 24
Namur: 30,447 - 55 - 31,538 - 56
East Flanders: 44,894 - 108 - 47,038 - 114
Flemish Brabant: 37,479 - 67 - 38,764 - 73
Walloon Brabant: 18,964 - 21 - 19,830 - 22
West Flanders: 30,678 - 105 - 32,337 - 120
No mail code provided: 1,798 - 34 - 1,210 - 0
Total: 393,704 (2006) - 409,062 (2010)
Source: Federal Police, Central Weapons Registry (statistics for October 2006 and March 2010)
[I]n 2010 almost 410,000 active gun owners were registered in the CWR…
[I]t is safe to say that there are currently fewer than 410,000 persons who have an authorization or licence to possess a firearm…
[CWR = Central Weapons Registry]
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