Gun laws in Americas
The Americas contain the full spectrum of gun regulation — from the constitutional protections and state-by-state variation of the United States, through Latin American licence regimes with single-issuer systems like Mexico’s, to Caribbean nations with restrictive colonial-era firearms acts.
Compare worldwide: ownership · handguns · open carry · concealed carry
🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda
ownership: licensed
🇦🇷 Argentina ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇧🇸 Bahamas ownership: licensed
🇧🇧 Barbados ownership: licensed · carry: varies
🇧🇿 Belize ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇧🇴 Bolivia ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇧🇷 Brazil ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇨🇦 Canada ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇨🇱 Chile ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇨🇴 Colombia ownership: licensed · carry: no
🇨🇷 Costa Rica ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇨🇺 Cuba ownership: restricted · carry: permit
🇩🇲 Dominica ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇪🇨 Ecuador ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇸🇻 El Salvador ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇬🇩 Grenada ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇬🇹 Guatemala ownership: licensed
🇬🇾 Guyana ownership: licensed · carry: varies
🇭🇹 Haiti ownership: licensed
🇭🇳 Honduras ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇯🇲 Jamaica ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇲🇽 Mexico ownership: restricted · carry: permit
🇳🇮 Nicaragua ownership: licensed
🇵🇦 Panama ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇵🇾 Paraguay ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇵🇪 Peru ownership: licensed
🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇱🇨 Saint Lucia ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇸🇷 Suriname ownership: licensed
🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago ownership: licensed
🇺🇾 Uruguay ownership: licensed · carry: permit
🇺🇸 United States ownership: restricted · carry: varies
🇻🇪 Venezuela ownership: licensed · carry: permit