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Americans Buy Enough Guns in 3 Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Army
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Posted on 04/28/2009 5:40:51 AM PDT by gaggs
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posted on
04/28/2009 5:40:52 AM PDT
by
gaggs
To: gaggs
Guess the government should have “bailed out” arms and ammo manufacturers. LOL
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posted on
04/28/2009 5:43:54 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: gaggs
Hmmm, I wonder why that would be? </sarcasm>
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posted on
04/28/2009 5:49:01 AM PDT
by
FourPeas
(I am the pink flamingo on the great lawn of life.)
To: gaggs
Well.. there’s the one market that was actually helped by the government... by not getting in their business. rofl
To: gaggs
That’s 4 times the population of the entire US of A. Something’s not right about this number. If it is accurate, how much of it was purchased by the Mexico cartels?
It would also mean an average of 4-5 guns per adult. That’s a dangerously high number - doesn’t signify a business as usual environment. I am against gun control so don’t get started on me. I am just worried about why so many Americans felt the need to stock up.
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posted on
04/28/2009 5:54:19 AM PDT
by
MimirsWell
(Scipio Pakistanus)
To: gaggs
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posted on
04/28/2009 5:55:45 AM PDT
by
madison10
To: MimirsWell
That’s rounds of ammunition. Seems like hardly enough for target practice. I think we should require all able bodied men to purchase and fire at least 100 rounds per month. (Self loading exemptions considered.)
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posted on
04/28/2009 5:59:10 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The age of 0bama: the transient ischemic delusions of adequacy decade.)
To: MimirsWell
No, it was about 1.2 million. That’s about than 1/3 of one percent of the US population.
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posted on
04/28/2009 5:59:28 AM PDT
by
Fido969
("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
To: gaggs
Sorry. I tried to buy more, but the stores were all out of my favorite calibers.
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posted on
04/28/2009 6:01:10 AM PDT
by
Lucretia Borgia
(I will be happy to show Obama the same respect the Democrats gave Reagan, Bush, and Palin.)
To: gaggs
WOW! China and India have LARGE armies. Could those numbers be correct? Fact Check confirmation anyone?
I know I did my part on ammo...BLOAT!
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posted on
04/28/2009 6:04:20 AM PDT
by
CaptSkip
To: MimirsWell
No, that's four or five bullets per American.
To: MimirsWell
I am just worried about why so many Americans felt the need to stock up.Obama.
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posted on
04/28/2009 6:06:56 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(Politicians do financial/economic surgery to fix ailments much like bloodletters in the Dark Ages.)
To: gaggs
Best. Thread. Title. EVER.
(I picked up another 100 rounds of 9mm Lugar yesterday)
To: gaggs
Libs should be THANKING gun/ammo purchasers for being pretty much the only segment of the populace doing its part to keep the economy afloat (by engaging in commerce).
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posted on
04/28/2009 6:09:29 AM PDT
by
NewJerseyJoe
(Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
To: gaggs
I love these feel good stories...
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posted on
04/28/2009 6:10:50 AM PDT
by
ejonesie22
(Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
To: MimirsWell
That number is for ammunition, not gun sales. The combined Indian and Chinese armies was the quantity reference for firearm sales - and those combined armies sure aren't four times the entire U.S. population.
Ammunition has been selling in bulk wherever people can find it. To reach 1.5 Billion rounds, that's just 1.5 Million people each buying a 1000-round case.
You're right, though - this certainly isn't business as usual. I'm more pleased with this than I am worried... this is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to a "no confidence" vote at the federal level.
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posted on
04/28/2009 6:11:13 AM PDT
by
Charles Martel
("Endeavor to persevere...")
To: gaggs
Love it. You can be damn sure the feds are going to notice when someone correlates numbers.
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posted on
04/28/2009 6:12:37 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(We either Free America ourselves, or it is midnight for humanity for a thousand years.)
To: gaggs
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posted on
04/28/2009 6:12:44 AM PDT
by
Poser
(Typed on my Woot-off $169 Asus Web Book (Linux of course))
To: MimirsWell
Remember the movie Tremors?
I wonder how many Americans have a "rec room" like Burt and Heather.
To: gaggs
Seems like a lot of ammo to me, but when you stop to think there are 50M households with guns, and if each bought only a box of a hundred, then that’s 5B. So I guess his numbers are reasonable.
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posted on
04/28/2009 6:14:27 AM PDT
by
CanaGuy
(Go Harper!)
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