How gun control works : There are several barriers to buying a gun in America, but there are generally so many loopholes in the current laws - even fairly restrictive city and state laws - that most people can buy a gun without too much of a problem. Gun homicide rate (2012) : 29.7 per 1 million people Gun ownership rate (2007 ): 88.8 guns per 100 people Here's a guide to the gun control laws of some of the countries I looked at: the US, the United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland, and Japan - a mix of wealthy nations with similar and varying cultural backgrounds. That's a strong indicator that restricting access to guns can save lives. A 2016 review of 130 studies in 10 countries, published in Epidemiologic Reviews, found that new legal restrictions on owning and purchasing guns tended to be followed by a drop in gun violence. I found the US really does have the most relaxed gun control measures in comparison with other developed nations.īased on the research, that's a significant reason the US leads its developed peers in gun violence. I looked into that question, breaking down gun laws in several developed countries based on media reports, studies on gun violence, national databases, the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence's analysis of American gun laws, and the Law Library of Congress's reviews of gun laws around the world.
But are US gun laws really that different from those of other developed nations? And the research, compiled by the Harvard School of Public Health's Injury Control Research Center, has repeatedly found a link between a higher number of guns and higher levels of gun violence.Ī common explanation for this is that America has some of the most lax gun laws in the world. According to a 2007 survey, the US led the world in the number of civilian-owned firearms with 88.8 guns per 100 people, while second-place Yemen fell far behind at 54.8 guns per 100 people. One reason for this difference is the abundance of guns in America. We do not cover long range shooting and sniping trajectories.The horrifying mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School offered yet another tragic reminder of America's gun problem: The US has much more firearm violence than its developed peers. This website is devoted to hunting, with all rifle trajectories sighted to give a flat, point blank range (± 2 inches = ± 50mm). That is, the range is 0 to 300 yards (= 0 to 275 metres) and the sighting range is +2 to -6 inches (+50mm to -150mm). The reference for these ballistics has been mostly ADI and some Wikipedia for the more obscure big game calibers.Īs a standard to aid in comparing calibers, all trajectory charts have the same axes. Within each group sharing the same projectile diameter, the rating is in terms of increasing muzzle energy for the heaviest projectile that can normally be fired in that particular caliber. The Calibers below are in ascending order based on each caliber’s projectile diameter. It is not a complete list of every possible rifle calibre. These lists contain the current popular calibres and some wildcats. To see a list of calibers based simply on muzzle energy, see the Most Powerful Calibers page. Following is a list of 160 hunting rifle calibers, from the smallest (17HMR) to the largest (700 Nitro Express).
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