🌐 gunlaws.global

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