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Karp, Aaron, Nicholas Marsh and Giorgio Ravagli. 2015 ‘Number of Firearms Reported Seized by Police, 2010-2013.’ UNODC Study on Firearms 2015; Table 1, p. 9. Vienna: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). 3 July
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Table 1. Number of Firearms Reported Seized by Police, 2010-20131
State: 2010 - 2011 - 2012 - 2013
Argentina: 1,872 - 2,502- 9,568 - 4,218
Brazil : 39,467 (2010-2012) - 13,048
Burkina Faso: nr - 174 - 852 - 1,231
Chile: 3,460 – 3,699 - 3,631- 6, 229
Colombia: 44,572 - 37,987 - 38,903 - 38,236
Costa Rica: 7,725 (2010-2012) - nr
Dominican Republic: 1,104 - 948 - 1,266 - 713
Ecuador: 514 - 4,606 - 5,171 - 3,739
El Salvador: 4,737 - 4,456 - 7,726 - nr
Estonia: nr - 21 - nr - nr
Finland: 2,783 - 3,023 - 2,642 - 3,149
France: 536 (2010-2012) - 825
Germany: 43,543 (2010-2013)
Ghana: 24 - 28 - 73 - 428
Greece: 133 (2010-2012) - nr
Guatemala: 4,580 - 4,069 - 4,375 - 4,408
Iraq: 10,949 - 17,281 - 11,820 - nr
Kenya: 2,134 (2010-2013)
Kuwait: 41 (2010-2012) - 84
Latvia: 23 - 120 - 27 - 16
Lithuania: 183 - 170 - 115 - 204
Mexico: 34,287 - 40,996 - 25,803 - 14,467
Montenegro: 379 - 453 – 319 - 411
Niger: nr - nr - 213 - nr
Panama: 1,936 - 3,011 - 1,955 - 1,770
Peru: 3,820 - 2,702 - 1,416 - 2,352
Poland : 2,269 - 1,577 - 1,850 - 1,567
Romania: 99 - 84 - 86 - 86
Serbia: nr - 668 – 1,258 - nr
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: 1,279 - 314 - 179 - 185
Togo: nr - nr - 205 - nr
Trinidad and Tobago: 384 - 425 - 429 - 419
Turkey: 1,994 (2010-2012) - 9,853
Uruguay: nr - nr - nr - 2,640
Source: UNODC1
[Editor's note: 'nr' = nothing recorded in the table for this year]