In the Middle East countries, the governments usually prefer to set strict rules and regulations for the possession of arms. The ownership of handguns and rifles is mostly forbidden in the regional countries. In a 2007 book titled “Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City” published by the Cambridge University Press, it was indicated that only 3,500,000 Iranian civilians possess guns and the rate of private gun ownership in Iran is 7.32 firearms per 100 people. Iran has a population of about 75 million people. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the annual homicides by any means, including firearms totaled 2,215 in 2009. The same figure for the United States was 15,241 in 2009.
According to the 2007 Small Arms Survey, the United States is the first country in the world in the ranking of guns per 100 residents. Of the Middle East nations, Yemen is the third country, Saudi Arabia is 6th, Iraq is 7th, Oman is 17th, Bahrain and Kuwait share the 18th place, United Arab Emirates is 24th, Qatar is 31st, Iran is 79th and Egypt is 115th. Tunisia is the 178th nation and it’s said that the imposition of strict rules of gun ownership by the deposed President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali had immensely restricted the civilians’ access to arms. The 2007 survey reported that only 9,000 Tunisian citizens possessed guns.
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