Speedo66
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Saw this article today about the licensing requirements for 16 countries around the world. It's a NY Times piece, so naturally the thrust is to show how easy it is to obtain a gun in the US. Needless to say, I don't believe any of the countries they compare us to have it written into their constitution as a right, not a privilege.
They document the Russian experience, then side note that people there generally ignore the regulations and estimate there are 3 illegal guns for every registered one. They also somehow manage, by accident I'm sure, to leave out the countries with less stringent requirements, such as the Czech Republic.
Still, it's an interesting look at the difficulties people have to deal with, some make getting a pistol license in NYC seem easy by comparison. Worth a read.
Here's the article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/02/world/international-gun-laws.html?module=inline
They document the Russian experience, then side note that people there generally ignore the regulations and estimate there are 3 illegal guns for every registered one. They also somehow manage, by accident I'm sure, to leave out the countries with less stringent requirements, such as the Czech Republic.
Still, it's an interesting look at the difficulties people have to deal with, some make getting a pistol license in NYC seem easy by comparison. Worth a read.
Here's the article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/02/world/international-gun-laws.html?module=inline