Speculation . How do they know how many guns? The Phillipines has many illegal firearms .There are "cottage industries" making black market handguns there, but they say Thailand has the most? So have been talking lessons on numbers from TAT ? Australia has had strict gun laws from 1996 and earlier than that for handguns but the crims have no problem obtaining them.If I remember correctly the cops "guesstimate" there's 250,000 illegal weapons there.