Police in Norway fired their guns just twice last year

Trigger-happy, they are not.

Police in Norway fired their guns just twice last year, astonishing statistics have revealed.

They brandished their firearms only 42 times across the country in 2014 - and the trigger was pulled on just two of those occasions.

And, on the times they did pump out a bullet, no-one was injured or killed.

It marks a slight decrease in activity from 2013, when they fired weapons just three times - but actually ended up injuring two people.

The figures appeared in the “Police Threat or Use of Firearms 2002-2014” report, according to The Local.

Just two people were killed in police shoot-outs over that period, the document revealed. And, incredibly, only one shot was fired by police in 2011.

That’s despite the far-right terrorist attack launched by Anders Behring Breivik, who killed eight people in an Oslo bomb blast and claimed the lives of 69 on the island of Utoya.

For comparison, in 2013 British police officers fired their weapons all of three times, according to PRI.

In America, however, some 499 people have been shot dead by police in 2015 alone, according to the Guardian.

The number of times police have opened fired in the U.S. is not known, however.

Norway’s population stands at about 5.2 million, Britain’s is 64 million, while America’s is around 321 million.

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