Overview of gun laws by nation

Quality:

Gun laws and policy - gun laws are used in order to reduce the harm potential of firearms. Article "Overview of gun laws by nation" in English Wikipedia has 70.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 775 references and 97 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

This article has the best quality in Czech Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In July 2024 the article "Overview of gun laws by nation" was edited by 12 authors in English Wikipedia (6405^th place) and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Overview of gun laws by nation", its content was written by 1666 registered users of English Wikipedia (1506^th place) and edited by 2018 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1146 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1478 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #52 in September 2002
• Global: #196 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1715 in February 2018
• Global: #5297 in February 2018

There are 13 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Czech (cs) Zákony o zbraních ve světě		89.442
2	Portuguese (pt) Legislação sobre armas de fogo		79.4958
3	Russian (ru) Обзор законов об оружии по странам		74.1665
4	English (en) Overview of gun laws by nation		70.3037
5	Japanese (ja) 各国における銃規制		69.6745
6	Spanish (es) Descripción general de las leyes de armas por nación en el mundo		64.5176
7	German (de) Waffenrecht		48.1908
8	Slovenian (sl) Orožno pravo		33.036
9	Swedish (sv) Vapenlagar		32.2561
10	Vietnamese (vi) Sở hữu và kiểm soát súng đạn theo quốc gia		15.2904

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Overview of gun laws by nation		8 723 942
2	German (de) Waffenrecht		433 873
3	Portuguese (pt) Legislação sobre armas de fogo		357 819
4	Russian (ru) Обзор законов об оружии по странам		313 226
5	Swedish (sv) Vapenlagar		185 333
6	Japanese (ja) 各国における銃規制		177 317
7	Dutch (nl) Wapenwet		119 887
8	Czech (cs) Zákony o zbraních ve světě		54 040
9	Vietnamese (vi) Sở hữu và kiểm soát súng đạn theo quốc gia		11 082
10	Arabic (ar) قوانين حمل السلاح		8 638

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Overview of gun laws by nation		33 093
2	Japanese (ja) 各国における銃規制		9 155
3	Russian (ru) Обзор законов об оружии по странам		5 486
4	Portuguese (pt) Legislação sobre armas de fogo		1 704
5	German (de) Waffenrecht		1 015
6	Czech (cs) Zákony o zbraních ve světě		587
7	Swedish (sv) Vapenlagar		427
8	Vietnamese (vi) Sở hữu và kiểm soát súng đạn theo quốc gia		390
9	Spanish (es) Descripción general de las leyes de armas por nación en el mundo		327
10	Arabic (ar) قوانين حمل السلاح		234

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Overview of gun laws by nation		1 666
2	German (de) Waffenrecht		128
3	Russian (ru) Обзор законов об оружии по странам		76
4	Portuguese (pt) Legislação sobre armas de fogo		44
5	Swedish (sv) Vapenlagar		25
6	Japanese (ja) 各国における銃規制		22
7	Dutch (nl) Wapenwet		19
8	Czech (cs) Zákony o zbraních ve světě		15
9	Croatian (hr) Zakonska regulativa za nošenje i posjedovanje oružja		9
10	Slovenian (sl) Orožno pravo		4

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Overview of gun laws by nation		12
2	Russian (ru) Обзор законов об оружии по странам		4
3	Arabic (ar) قوانين حمل السلاح		0
4	Czech (cs) Zákony o zbraních ve světě		0
5	German (de) Waffenrecht		0
6	Spanish (es) Descripción general de las leyes de armas por nación en el mundo		0
7	Croatian (hr) Zakonska regulativa za nošenje i posjedovanje oružja		0
8	Japanese (ja) 各国における銃規制		0
9	Dutch (nl) Wapenwet		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Legislação sobre armas de fogo		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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