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One Gun for Every Eight Citizens in Victoria, Australia
23 October 2015
Yahoo! 7 News (Australia)
Victoria has one gun for every eight citizens, with 35,000 new guns flooding into the state in the past year.
Gun control groups say the numbers are frightening but shooters say the rise is because more people are appreciating shooting as a safe and fun sport.
Victoria had 764,767 registered guns in 2014-15, up from 728,999 the previous year.
"It's a startling number and I believe it's a frightening number in terms of the increase of licensed guns in Victoria," Gun... (GunPolicy.org)