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To: meadsjn

“ Prior to the War Against Trump, there were already trillions of rounds in the possession of the 100+ million law-abiding human citizens. Lots of Ammo from WW-II days is still suitable for use.”

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“ The Leftists hate arithmetic.”
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Perhaps, then, we should use arithmetic ourselves? Taking that 8.1 billion rounds produced in 2017, rounded to 8 billion for ease if calculation, it would take 125 years of accumulating ammo - without any being used, lost or decaying into ineffectiveness - to get to 1 trillion rounds. Not trillions (plural), and that assumes 8 billion rounds/ year of production for the full 125 years - when 125 years ago we about 75 million people, less than 1/4 of our present population. IOW, we do NOT have trillions of rounds of ammunition.

Here’s a more reasonable and realistic calculation: if you assume that there are 500 million guns and 1,000 rounds per gun, that’s 500 billion rounds. That takes into account the large number of people who likely have only a couple boxes of ammo for their gun, and also the guys that have 10,000 rounds per gun.

Note that 500 billion rounds is still a LOT, and should give anyone contemplating a confiscation a case of the Hersey Squirts serious enough to require a box of Imodium every single day.


80 posted on 11/29/2020 11:45:36 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. )
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To: Ancesthntr
Here’s a more reasonable and realistic calculation: if you assume that there are 500 million guns and 1,000 rounds per gun, that’s 500 billion rounds. That takes into account the large number of people who likely have only a couple boxes of ammo for their gun, and also the guys that have 10,000 rounds per gun.

Fair enough.

83 posted on 11/30/2020 1:26:09 AM PST by meadsjn (, )
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To: Ancesthntr

Good stuff,
Let’s start;
Tom,Dick and Harry.


84 posted on 11/30/2020 4:55:03 AM PST by Big Red Badger (TRUMP, the Other guy lives in a Basement!)
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