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Rate of Civilian Firearm Ownership in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Chile (2017)

(Radiografía de las armas en la Argentina)

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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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 , which gives a rate civilian possession of 8.8 weapons per 100 inhabitants, higher than that of Brazil (8.6) and Bolivia (2.5) although surprisingly lower than that of Uruguay (32.6) and Chile (10.2).

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