This article is ignorant nonsense.
Only the UK and Irish don’t routinely arm their police in Europe. European police ARE armed. 95% of French police ARE armed.
And as an addendum, its a myth that Euros don’t own guns: 19m French alone own guns. 7m in Italy, 2.3m in the UK. You probably have 50m that do.
Your figures are interesting.
I recently read an article that said there were 7.5 million legal firearms in France, and about twice that many illegal firearms.
Is the figure you cite for legal owners, or based on estimates of illegal ownership in France.
I would like to be correct about this on anything I write in the future.
Thanks