[Williams]

Love hunting. We ain’t got 150 million hunters.
So I’m doubting this analysis.

[Vermont Lt]

He wasn’t exaggerating about the other stuff.

The air wing of the Army is pretty big as well. And also the Marine Corps.

I recall a college friend telling me that the new tech he was dealing with at 25 years into the Army was “Battlestar Galactica” stuff. And that was more than a decade ago. I cannot imagine how advanced it is now.

[Skwor]

Known this for years but when I talk about it most disengage as they just cannot grasp the concept and refuse to understand the real risk of what the left is doing in this country.

[Tallguy]

Does a guy that’s a duck hunter & a deer hunter get counted twice. If the data is coming from licensing I suspect that he counts twice. Then if that hunter takes a trip to Montana to hunt Elk? Three times.

[Tallguy]

Does a guy that’s a duck hunter & a deer hunter get counted twice? If the data is coming from licensing I suspect that he counts twice. Then if that hunter takes a trip to Montana to hunt Elk? Three times?

[atomic_dog]

I did some research on it once and the US has somewhere in the area of 14-16 million hunting licenses issued each year. I consider the number of deer tags issued a more useful data point as someone with a deer tag probably own a large caliber rifle and has demonstrated a knowledge of how to kill a large mammal with it.

I was somewhat surprised to find out that Wisconsin consistently leads in that statistic. So one could say that Wisconsin by itself has the fourth largest paramilitary force in the world (behind North Korea, South Korea and India respectively).

[rellic]

Probably counting the number of people that attended hunter safety classes. I made all the children in my household go to those classes even if they had no interest in hunting.
I wanted everyone to learn safety around guns. I knew they would be exposed to guns and I wanted them to be safe.

[whitney69]

“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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