Originally Posted by
Lomon
It is difficult to quantify a comparison with say the US, as I can only find statistics on firearm deaths, rather than crimes in general (eg an armed robbery where a weapon is not discharged and no-one is hurt)
Roughly 257,000 firearm involved offences in the US (2022 estimates from the FBI, likely undercounting), or 760 per million people.
10,000 (2019, from the ONS) in England and Wales or 173 per million people.
341 in Scotland (2020, from the Scottish government) or 62 per million people