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India has 5.3 civilian firearms per 100 people. This should give a glimpse of the gun laws, but this is slightly inaccurate, as I've not read the 2019 amendment to gun laws. To read the new amendment, you can check it out here.
That's higher than I expected. I haven't seen a gun outside of CISF or armed police. Is it UP skewing the numbers?
According to Bard, it says that UP is skewing the numbers, but I don't trust the verbal vomit from that LLM. If you can give a look at the 2021 data, it could point out to what you're looking for. But yes, North India has a gang violence and gun culture problem. We're talking about Punjab, Delhi, Haryana, UP and Bihar. Then there's also insurgent groups in Chattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal, Assam and Jharkhand.
Oh yes, I forgot about the insurgencies. That's probably the bulk of the guns.