The majority of gunshot victims are men and the vast majority of those who make, sell, buy or misuse weapons are men. Yet women and girls pay a disproportionate price for the lack of controls on today's billion-dollar trade in arms. Women are particularly at risk of certain crimes because of their gender - crimes such as violence in the home, and rape. But women are not just victims of guns: they are survivors, carers, activists, and sometimes even encourage the demand. The campaign report (now available online), the Impact of Guns on Women’s Lives highlights how a gun in the home makes a woman less safe:

An attack with a gun is 12 times more likely to end in death than an attack with other weapons;
In South Africa, a woman is shot dead by a current or former partner every 18 hours;
In the USA, a gun in the home increases the risk that someone in the household will be murdered by 41%; but increases the risk for women by 272%;
In France and South Africa, one in three women killed by their husbands are shot; in the USA this rises to two in three;
Family killings are one category of homicides where women outnumber men as victims with her partner or male relative the most likely murderer.