| Title: | All about Scandinavia |
| Moderator: | TLE::SAVAGE |
| Created: | Wed Dec 11 1985 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 603 |
| Total number of notes: | 4325 |
I am a Yankee Gun Collector, and have gone through the US state
and federal licencing formalities.
I should like to ask you in Scandinavia two questions:
1. What are the firearms laws?
2. What is the attitude of the "average" person on firearms?
PLEASE, will other yanks please reply in SOAPBOX? I respect
your right to talk, but it is a distraction here.
Scandanavians, please identify your country.
TOK, Phil
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| 97.1 | ECCGY4::JAERVINEN | formerly MUNICH::ORA | Wed May 07 1986 04:38 | 16 | |
1. The laws are very strict. It is next to impossible for a private
person to legally own handguns. Sports & hunting rifles are
different, of course, but also strictly controlled.
2. I can only speak for myself but I don't think the 'average' person's
opinion would differ very much. I have never heard anyone expressing
the need to own (hand)guns for his/her protection. Honest criminals
don't use guns!
I don't have any statistics for the Scandinavian countries, but
in US, about 11,500 persons are killed annually by guns. The same
number for UK (from last year, if I remember correctly) was 8.
If the US number were related to the population of, say, Finland,
it would mean about 250 dead. Like I said I don't know the actual
number, but I am pretty sure it is well below 10.
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