Who owns the world's guns?
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Of the 1 billion guns in the world, more than 85 percent are in civilian hands, and of those, nearly 46 percent are in the United States alone, according to the Small Arms Survey at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
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