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Fewer Gun Owners but More Hunting Weapons

Jakt & Jägare

12 February 2020

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It is often claimed in the debate that Sweden has about 600,000 legal gun owners. That is not true, according to the weapons register. Jakt & Jägare has ordered a run of the register from the Police. The trend is that there are fewer and fewer gun owners, but there are licenses for more and more weapons, mainly for hunting.

At the time of running the weapons register on 1 February, 552,554 people had one or more weapons licenses.
Since 2018, there are 4,519 fewer weapon owners, but the number of hunting weapons has increased by almost 52,000 since 2018. At the same time, the number of weapons for target shooting remains at around 164,000.
It is also possible to obtain licenses for, for example, collector weapons.
But Jakt & Jägare has asked for figures on the number of weapons licensed for hunting purposes and the number of weapons for shooting in recent years.

On 1 August, there were 1,508,438 weapons for hunting in the register.
Compared with the same date in 2018, there are 51,977 more hunting weapons. During the same period, the number of weapons for target shooting has increased by 465 to 164,647.

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