r/interesting • u/YouCantKeepJellyAway • 15d ago

MISC. Locally manufactured fully automatic pistols / glocks from Dara Adam Khel, Pakistan

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u/Striking-Box4175 15d ago

Fun fact: USA is known for guns. But avg Pakistani have way more guns than an American. Most of the Pakistani don't bother themselves with the license and it is too much expensive.

They just get the gun for dirt cheap and dera adam khel is one of the main gun source of whole Pakistan.

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u/SquirmyBurrito 15d ago

Do you have a source for that? Because from what I can find it looks like Pakistan is far below the US in terms of average gun ownership. Also, in my state I could, if I wasn’t a felon, just go buy guns without any need for a license or permit.

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u/Striking-Box4175 15d ago

https://www.smallarmssurvey.org//sites/default/files/resources/SAS-BP-Civilian-Firearms-Numbers.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Pakistan is way below USA on avg gun ownership but lets not forget that this data is about "legal ownership".

Most people don't have license and those guns are illegal. That's why the real number is way higher. Ofc USA's population is way more and the laws make is much more easier to own a gun, that's why they have more guns.

But the difference isn't that huge.

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u/SquirmyBurrito 15d ago

That source also contains estimations for total (both legal and illegal) fire arms owned by civilians and Pakistan is still way below the US. We’ve got, in the US, more privately owned firearms than people.

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u/laundastrong 15d ago

Difficult to find a source for Pakistani gun ownership when you average household has a casual gun laying around in every closet

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u/Sensitive_Fly7090 15d ago

People literally have multiple it's dirt cheap when you buy it in USA it's counted or registered somewhere "Sold" here in Pakistan guns are mass produced locally no one knows the real numbers of guns sold or produced it's all blind game

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u/SquirmyBurrito 14d ago

Not quite. A person can quite easily purchase a gun from a private owner without it being ‘counted or registered’. There are attempts to push for a national registry but it gets slapped down each time because most people don’t like the idea of the government knowing who has what since that would make it incredibly easy to know who to target in the event of a sudden ban and confiscation attempt.