<P> The Mauser and its variants far exceed all AK47s in total number produced . A 2007 report for the World Bank, by Oxford University economist Phillip Killicoat, estimated there were about 500 million firearms in the world . The same report placed the annual number of firearms deaths worldwide at between 200,000 and 400,000, with only a minority of these--20,000 to 100,000--in "conflict settings". Another report by the Geneva - based Small Arms Survey the same year said there were at least 639 million weapons in circulation, and probably many more . The Small Arms Survey is partly funded by NATO . </P> <P> This page lists more than 100 small arms designs which have been produced in numbers exceeding one million since the late 18th century . Added together, production of these types adds up to roughly 400 - 650 million . Many more types have been made in the hundreds of thousands . </P>

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