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Small Arms Survey Shows U.S. with 40% of Firearms
Gun Watch ^ | 24 June, 2018 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 06/24/2018 5:04:46 AM PDT by marktwain

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The Small Arms Survey does not consider homemade guns made outside of commercial manufacturing channels.
1 posted on 06/24/2018 5:04:46 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

41%? We can do better people.


2 posted on 06/24/2018 5:06:12 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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>>41%? We can do better people.

I’m tryin’! I’m tryin’. But my wife will notice a bigger gun safe and ask why I needed it. ;-)


3 posted on 06/24/2018 5:09:43 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: marktwain

“A rifle behind every blade of grass”


4 posted on 06/24/2018 5:12:55 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: central_va; marktwain
I think this isn't a bad estimate given the problems noted in data capture.

That said...This well-researched and well-written article puts the US total between 412-660 million. That's very believable.

5 posted on 06/24/2018 5:14:27 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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41%? We can do better people.

Nah, you don't want the commies and proto-nazi antifa arming themselves.

6 posted on 06/24/2018 5:17:28 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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7 posted on 06/24/2018 5:17:36 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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Considering the majority of civilian owned guns, which are obviously of less than comparable sophistication vs those weapons the military has, that “estimation” significance is grossly overstated.


8 posted on 06/24/2018 5:23:30 AM PDT by DaveA37
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He forgot to thank the greatest gun seller of all time:


9 posted on 06/24/2018 5:25:48 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (MAGAMarchOnWashington.com)
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I.e. don’t mess with americans. Choose a softer target.


10 posted on 06/24/2018 5:26:26 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: DaveA37

Ok, but I fail to see your point. Can you elaborate?


11 posted on 06/24/2018 5:30:32 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: marktwain

And most of those “civilian” guns are in red states.

Which is why I say to leftest pukes, come and get it.


12 posted on 06/24/2018 5:32:51 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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Get ‘em while you can. Bad times coming.


13 posted on 06/24/2018 5:41:03 AM PDT by PAR35
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Hi.

“41%? We can do better people.”

I’m trying. One thing I have to stop doing is carrying my firearms on my boat. Too many tragic accidents.

5.56mm


14 posted on 06/24/2018 5:41:41 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: PAR35

And don’t forget to BLOAT.

Buy
Lots
Of
Ammo
Today


15 posted on 06/24/2018 5:46:21 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: marktwain

Join the NRA! They are the only organization strong enough to fight the grabbers. Watch out for credit institutions that restrict firearm purchases, ammunition restrictions, local ordinances, registration efforts, private sale restrictions and other roundabout methods of restricting our Right to keep and bear arms


16 posted on 06/24/2018 5:46:54 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: central_va; DaveA37

I understand him to be saying, that despite the numbers, we are still outgunned by the government. Attack helicopter vs .22 long rifle, for example.

But that ignores the ‘think outside the box’ elements of asymmetrical warfare. We lost in Vietnam. Both we and the Russians lost in Afghanistan. Assad would have lost in Syria until the invention of the barrel bomb.

There are news areas of technology which have been weaponized. And more to come.


17 posted on 06/24/2018 5:50:26 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: central_va

Always remember the current liberal meme that “3 percent of gun owners in America possess 50 percent of all the guns”.

This is an attempt to marginalize gun owners as a politically insignificant minority and also to suggest that a few well placed SWAT raids can round up a great portion of the guns.

But look at states like NY, CT, MA, CA with deadlines to register `assault weapons’ which have passed with massive noncompliance. The governors haven’t sent out their armed flying monkeys to kick in doors, not just yet.


18 posted on 06/24/2018 6:01:19 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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"At the end of 2017, the Small Arms Survey estimated the U.S.A. had 46% of privately owned firearms in the world."

Are we confused, yet? ;-)


19 posted on 06/24/2018 6:10:44 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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A gun lost in a body of water usually becomes inoperable.

Ahem - all of you careless FReepers who stood up in the canoe while your priceless collection of 50 or so guns were in the deepest part of the lake - take note.

20 posted on 06/24/2018 6:20:14 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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