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Number of Registered and Illicit Firearms in Argentina (2017)

Instituto de Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales y Sociales (INECIP), Web page

23 November 2017

By The Chamber of Deputies of the Nation approved the extension of the Voluntary Weapons Surrender Program until 2019. How many legal weapons are there,

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The National Agency for Controlled Materials (ANMaC) -a decentralized entity that has been operating since 2015 within the scope of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of the Nation, also known as the former RENAR- is in charge of applying and supervising compliance with this law.

There are currently 1,562,332 weapons registered with the ANMaC in our country, of which 84% belong to civilians , according to official data. There are no statistics on the number of illegal weapons in circulation, but - according to an investigation published by Chequeado - the Agency itself estimates that there are another million and a half weapons on the black market. Civilian sector assessments say there are four million.
[1,562,332 registered weapons (84% in civilian hands) = 1,312,358]

According to a study by the political scientist Diego Sanjurjo, a pre-doctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the Autonomous University of Madrid, the civilian arsenal of small arms in Argentina amounts to 3,600,000 firearms

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