Guatemalan authorities recognize Friday serious deficiency in registering and controlling firearms, despite 85 percent of crimes committed in this country are with those devices.
David Barrientos, director from the Department of Control of Arms and Munitions (DECAM), told deputies from the Republic's Congress that the country has no an organized file or the adequate technology to fulfill the entity's functions.
According to Barrientos, the nation has granted about 300,000 licenses to individuals for the possession of guns, and 50,000 of them with permission to carry them, but there is no any information system to monitor them.
The DECAM director said there are 250,000 weapons illegally on the street, although the International Investigation Center on Human Rights estimates that figure at one and a half million.
Government Minister Vinicio Gomez informed Thursday that about 52,342 homicides have been committed in Guatemala in the last 12 years, over 44,000 of them with firearms.
David Barrientos, director from the Department of Control of Arms and Munitions (DECAM), told deputies from the Republic's Congress that the country has no an organized file or the adequate technology to fulfill the entity's functions.
According to Barrientos, the nation has granted about 300,000 licenses to individuals for the possession of guns, and 50,000 of them with permission to carry them, but there is no any information system to monitor them.
The DECAM director said there are 250,000 weapons illegally on the street, although the International Investigation Center on Human Rights estimates that figure at one and a half million.
Government Minister Vinicio Gomez informed Thursday that about 52,342 homicides have been committed in Guatemala in the last 12 years, over 44,000 of them with firearms.
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