“We ain’t got 150 million hunters.”
Depends on how you count them. In 2018, there were approximately 393 million civilian-owned guns in the United States, according to the Small Arms Survey, while the military and law enforcement held about 5.5 million. And that number pushes that 150M off the scale.
https://www.consumershield.com/articles/how-many-guns-us
And the desire to protect from those guns turns many people into hunters.
At the start of the WW II the Japanese chose not to rush into the US because of the count of hunting licenses just in Pennsylvania alone. Gun ownership is staggering in the US. A lot more than people realize.
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This isn’t 1943, hunter numbers have been steadily declining for years, and no the number of guns don’t equal hunters.