7. The United Kingdom Offers Odd Statistics
Starting in the late 1980s with what’s colloquially known as the Hungerford massacre (in which 16 people were killed by a man toting legally owned firearms), the United Kingdom has implemented increasingly stringent firearms laws. However, according to analysts, gun crimes in the UK didn’t actually peak until 2004 — more than eight years after the country’s most strict laws were passed. The correlation leads some experts to believe that in some cases, legislation doesn’t curb gun crime. That being said, firearms murders in Britain are 30 times less per capita than in the US.
8. In India, They Just Made Everything Illegal
As of legislation passed in 2014, India has made it pretty much impossible to buy any kind of weapon that’s not a shotgun or a standard rifle. By dividing their guns into two categories — Prohibited Bore and Non-Prohibited Bore — the Indian government have made it easy to slide individual weapon gauges across the line into basically unpurchasable with ease.
9. South Korea Wins Most Restrictive
Perhaps surprisingly (considering the fact that North Korea is right freaking there), South Korea has the most restrictive gun laws in the entire developed world. No one is allowed to keep a private firearm in their home. Even those weapons issued via sporting licenses are kept at local police stations when they’re not in use. Even air rifles fall under this mandate. South Korea has only 0.08 firearm-related deaths per 100,000 people.
