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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...

Myanmar is ranked 179 out of 230 countries ranked by gun ownership rate




> Myanmar is ranked 179 out of 230 countries ranked by gun ownership rate

IIRC, the only guns that were legal there for civilian ownership there were single-shot hunting rifles. If you read the reports, the resistance to the junta had a lot of problems until they could acquire more semiautomatic rifles of the kind many people in the US claim would be useless against a professional military, which is obviously not true due to this counterexample.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Defence_Force_(Myan...

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/2/3/myanmars-rebels-...:

> Under Phoe’s command are about 70 men and four women of mixed ethnicities. Many are from the cities. Wielding a mix of rifles and semiautomatic guns, they form a line and salute every time a car enters the camp.


Not by any strong computation method. It is based on method 3 which is "analogous comparison" which just say that we will compare it to a country with near circumstances (and Wikipedia doesn't specify how this is done. It is based on small arms survey [1]. I wouldn't take these numbers to a great length. It is even estimated before this conflict erupted.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180620231909/http://www.smalla...




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