We have high levels of
legal gun ownership. Because the laws were fairly loose until recently, and because the border was easily traversed prior to 2001, it's hard to get an accurate estimate of the real number. We're estimated around the
4th 6th country per capita, mostly long guns.
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The legal gun owners are white, so there is little crime committed by this cohort. In the city the high gun crime is (obviously) non-white.
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and the
guns used are about 85% pistols with barrels shorter than 105mm (4 inches), which aren't legal in Canada, and were smuggled over the border.
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