Germany Gun Numbers

Thursday, August 4th, 2016

The German Firearms Register records almost 5.5 million private guns belonging to 1.4 million people — but the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung estimates that there are also 20 million illegal firearms in Germany.

Those 20 million illegal firearms don’t seem to be put to much use. There were 57 gun homicides in Germany in 2015, up from 42 the previous year — compared with 804 in 1995.

Comments

  1. Tim says:

    Let the Democrats (US) manage an urban center. Then shortly there will be gunfire just like Chicago.

  2. Bob Sykes says:

    The question is, How many of the illegal guns are in the hands of the Muslims?

  3. Dan Kurt says:

    I am in my 75th year and a 2nd generation German American. I remember my family when I was a boy and our neighbors who were predominately of German extraction: everybody had guns and nobody got shot. Gun cabinets were in the living room and pistols were in the night stand drawer or under the mattress. I got a BB gun at age 8, a Crosman Pellet gun pistol at age 10, and a 22 rifle at age 12. That was normal.

    Even after losing two bloody wars and being re-educated by the victors, I can believe Germans in Germany still have a penchant to have guns.

    Dan Kurt

  4. Lucklucky says:

    804 in 1995?!

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