If Canada’s federal government’s numbers are right, Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are Canada’s most heavily armed citizens, but also its least trigger-happy.
According to the most recent numbers from the Canada Firearms Centre, the province has 70,977 registered firearms. Statistics Canada’s latest numbers estimate the province’s population at 508,270. That’s one gun for every 7.2 people, the highest ratio of guns to people of any province in the country.
Statistics Canada’s most recent numbers on gun crime also reveal the province has the lowest annual rate of victims of firearm-related crime in the country, with just 11.4 victims for every 100,000 people.
