About gunlaws.global

gunlaws.global is a community-maintained reference for civilian firearms law around the world. Our goal is a plain-language summary for every country — and for every US state — covering who may own a gun, how licensing works, the rules on carry, transport and import, and the penalties for getting it wrong.

The information already exists, but it is scattered across ministries, statutes, police circulars and forum threads, often outdated, and frequently only available in the local language. We pull those threads into one consistent, cross-referenced place so a traveller, a researcher, or a curious owner can find a straight answer in one page instead of ten.

Every article starts life as an AI-drafted first version. Those drafts are clearly labelled as unverified until a human has checked them, and each one cites the sources it draws from. Accuracy will come from people: a community correction process — currently being built — will let readers who know the law first-hand suggest fixes, which editors will review before anything is published; once a human verifies an article, it will shed the draft label. It is the same virtuous cycle that makes a wiki trustworthy over time.

The site is operated by NBG, a European firearms trading company, but it is editorially independent — article content is never influenced by commercial interests: we run no ads on the law pages and take no position on policy. Contributions are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 so the knowledge stays free and reusable.

A word of honesty about the limits: law is complex, changes constantly, and summaries lose nuance. Nothing here is legal advice, some pages will be incomplete or wrong, and you should always confirm the current rules with an official source before you act. See our legal notice for the full disclaimer.