Across the Country Stats.

In the United Kingdom, firearms are tightly controlled by law, though shooting organisations provide opposition to this legislation. These laws are much less restrictive in Northern Ireland than in the rest of the UK. In 2012 the British Shooting Sports Council believed that the law needed to be consolidated, but did not call for a review. The United Kingdom has one of the lowest rates of gun homicides in the world. There were 0.04 recorded intentional homicides committed with a firearm per 100,000 inhabitants in 2010. Gun homicides accounted for 2.4% of all homicides in the year 2009.

Australia has restrictive firearms laws, rifles and shotguns including semi-automatic,as well as handguns are all legal within a narrow set of criteria. As of 2007 about 5.2% of Australian adults 765,000 people, own and use firearms for purposes such as hunting, controlling feral animals, collecting, security work, and target shooting.

Nearly 22% of Canadian households had at least one firearm, including 2.3% of households possessing a handgun. As of September 2010, the Canadian Firearms Program recorded a total of 1,831,327 valid firearm licences, which is roughly 5.4% of the Canadian population. The four most licensed provinces are Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia. In 2005 almost 3% of households in Canada possessed handguns, compared to 18% of U.S. households that possessed handguns. In 2005 almost 16% of households in Canada possessed firearms of some kind.