Gun Policy News
Malta Has 90,000 Registered Guns: 80% of Homicides Involve a Firearm
5 March 2009
Times of Malta
There are about 20 registered guns, including pistols and machineguns, for every 100 people in Malta, according to statistics released in Parliament.
In all, there are about 90,000 weapons registered, including some 12,400 pistols, excluding those owned by the police force.
Among the registered firearms are 52,224 shotguns and 8,373 airguns. The number of registered pistols, revolvers, rifles, machineguns and sub-machineguns reaches a staggering 17,036.
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