New Zealand’s Guns, By the Numbers + How The Rest of the World Is Doing

7 Kiwis Over 100 years old with firearm licences

490 Firearms stolen in 2021

1,161 Licences revoked in 2021, the highest since… 2020

10 Around the number of guns the police encounter each day nationwide

240,038 Active licence holders.

Countries with the Highest Total Gun Deaths 2019

This was 65.9% of total gun deaths globally in 2019. In the United States this number jumped to 45,222 in 2020, 43% were murders, while 54% was suicide. 3% were cops and “misc” unintentional deaths.

246 mass shootings in the USA in 2022 (as of June)

This is tracking with 2021, the worst year on record with 692

0 The number of times thoughts and prayers have stopped future shootings

Civilian Gun Ownership per 100 People

The USA has more guns than people

In 2017 in the USA there were 393,347,000 firearms in civilian ownership. Total population: 326,474,000. And somehow we catch grief for once having a lot of sheep.

NZ Sources: police.govt.nz/about-us/publication/firearms-data | nzherald.co.nz/nz/guns-on-the-street-10000-firearms-encountered-by-police-on-duty/RMFFKCSQ7YJZMJI7XJ7OE2UC4M/ International References: worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-deaths-by-country | worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-ownership-by-country | edition.cnn.com/2022/06/07/us/2022-shootings-pace-worst-ever/index.html | pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/