5. Austria
Austria is on 14th place on world’s gun ownership list, even though an applicant for a gun license must state the valid reason for the firearm (collecting or hunting). Self-defense, again, is not seen as a valid reason. Attending safety course is strictly required. The number of recorded gun ownership is on the constant rise because the Austrian citizens strongly believe that gun control laws are too liberal as well as that local police is not protective enough. The U.S. Library of Congress conducted a study according to which the overall proportion of gun homicides increasingly fell somewhere between 1999 and 2010 to 12% and firearm suicides decreased to 65%. Austria is right in the middle of our list of countries with no gun laws and low crime list with 30.4 firearms per 100 people.
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