1 11 Although this suggests a ratio of 17.8 guns for each current member of personnel, 12 a 2006 estimate put the ratio much lower, at 5.9 firearms per person. In a 2018 study, the armed forces of Ukraine were estimated to have 6,600,000 small arms, the world’s fourth largest inventory of military firearms. 10 3 5 Based on data from the study which calculated the lowest estimates in this range, Ukraine ranked 14 th in the world for the number of civilian firearms in its national stockpile, and 49 th in the world for the number of civilian firearms per head of population. 9 Civilian PossessionĮstimates of the number of guns in private hands - including 2 million registered and an estimated 3-5 million unregistered firearms – suggest that in Ukraine there are between 9.9 and 15.8 firearms per 100 people. 8 In a ‘Transparency Barometer’ of the world’s 50 largest arms-dealing nations Ukraine ranks 44 th. 6 A country identified as a source of weaponry to unstable regions in the past, 7 much of the firearm trafficking involving Ukraine currently takes place within its borders. 4 5 The nation inherited vast quantities of Soviet-era small arms and ammunition. Ukraine is home to an estimated eleven million state- and civilian-owned firearms, 1 2 3 yet lacks cohesive gun laws.
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