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To: DuncanWaring

I’ve got 9. Planning on another 6....

33 posted on 06/22/2007 10:40:10 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)

Looks like we’ll both end up around “15”.

34 posted on 06/22/2007 10:53:31 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)

To: Dead Corpse; DuncanWaring

With 750 million firearms -- three quarters of a billion guns -- of modern design in working condition already in private hands in America today,...

DW:
Any idea where he came up with this number? It suggests 2-3 weapons for every man, woman and child in the country.
The most common number I've seen is roughly a third of that.

I started collecting at 21, and have probably averaged owning close to 40+ guns over the last 40 years.

Figuring 'modern' cartridge arms have been manufactured and imported for 150 years, I'd hesitate to bet that there are less than 3 or 4 hundred million still around.

35 posted on 06/22/2007 11:25:56 AM PDT by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)

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