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Report: Nearly 400 Million Civilian-Owned Guns in America
« on: June 21, 2018, 05:35:44 pm »
A report published this month found civilians in the United States own almost 400 million guns, outpacing every other civilian population, police, or military force in the world.

The Small Arms Survey estimates there are 393,300,000 civilian-owned firearms in the United States. The survey, performed by the Graduate Institute of Geneva, estimated the United States military has about 4.5 million firearms. It put the number of firearms owned by police throughout the United States at just over 1 million.

That means American civilians own nearly 100 times as many firearms as the U.S. military and nearly 400 times as many as law enforcement.

http://freebeacon.com/culture/report-nearly-400-million-civilian-owned-guns-america/
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Re: Report: Nearly 400 Million Civilian-Owned Guns in America
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2018, 11:41:57 pm »
Good. Let's keep it that way... Behind every blade of grass...

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Re: Report: Nearly 400 Million Civilian-Owned Guns in America
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2018, 11:47:37 pm »
I need more
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Re: Report: Nearly 400 Million Civilian-Owned Guns in America
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2018, 12:01:54 am »
We remain, as a British officer had reason to complain at the start of our Revolution, "A people numerous and armed".

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Re: Report: Nearly 400 Million Civilian-Owned Guns in America
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2018, 12:06:12 am »
We are other nations worst nightmare.   Citizens with a constitutional right to bear arms!
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Re: Report: Nearly 400 Million Civilian-Owned Guns in America
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2018, 12:13:28 am »
We are other nations worst nightmare.   Citizens with a constitutional right to bear arms!

We forget that fact at our eternal peril.

But never let anyone tell you that your rights come from government. The genius of our Constitution lies in the simple fact that it recognizes our rights and does not grant them. The right of each human being to self-defense is inalienable, in spite of what those who wish to "regulate" it would have you believe.
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Re: Report: Nearly 400 Million Civilian-Owned Guns in America
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2018, 12:31:42 am »
That's all?

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Re: Report: Nearly 400 Million Civilian-Owned Guns in America
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2018, 01:06:47 am »
That’s just the guns they know about. Me, I don’t own any. Lost them all in that tragic SCUBA diving accident. Ammo, too.  **nononono*
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Re: Report: Nearly 400 Million Civilian-Owned Guns in America
« Reply #9 on: June 22, 2018, 01:13:37 am »
That’s just the guns they know about. Me, I don’t own any. Lost them all in that tragic SCUBA diving accident. Ammo, too.  **nononono*

Yeah... I lost all mine in the Great Root Beer Disaster of '98...
No wait... That was when a glass jug of A&W root beer busted and flowed into my drawer full of floppies. Epic disaster. Didn't save a single one.

My weapons loss must have been a different disaster altogether.  :shrug: