Posted on 08/28/2007 10:55:28 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people
By Laura MacInnis 28 minutes ago
The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.
U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.
About 4.5 million of the 8 million new guns manufactured worldwide each year are purchased in the United States, it said.
"There is roughly one firearm for every seven people worldwide. Without the United States, though, this drops to about one firearm per 10 people," it said.
India had the world's second-largest civilian gun arsenal, with an estimated 46 million firearms outside law enforcement and the military, though this represented just four guns per 100 people there. China, ranked third with 40 million privately held guns, had 3 firearms per 100 people.
Germany, France, Pakistan, Mexico, Brazil and Russia were next in the ranking of country's overall civilian gun arsenals.
On a per-capita basis, Yemen had the second most heavily armed citizenry behind the United States, with 61 guns per 100 people, followed by Finland with 56, Switzerland with 46, Iraq with 39 and Serbia with 38.
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Oooffaa.
In short...
NO.
Don't worry about the gun grabbers now.
Join the NRA. Join the GOA. Join JPFO. Join any other pro-gun organization you can and give generously.
Better to stop them with our numbers, dollars (give what you can, when you can), power, influence, etc. NOW, rather than have to kill them later. Let the f**kers come. As Charlton heston said, "From my cold dead hands!".
I, for one (and there are MANY like me), will take a LOT of the gun-grabbing leftists with me, and hopefully, FREEDOM will prevail.
I believe strongly it will.
After all, this is AMERICA.
It has 40 megajoules. Whatever that means. ; }
and this makes us the least likely to be subjugated by socialists or commies,which is the impetus behind gun control-never forget that for a minute
.308 (make sure the rifle you buy is compatible with higher pressure, slightly different sized military 7.62 x 51 ammunition) and 12 gauge are MUCH more practical from a logistics and price point of view, both being used by various military and law enforcement agencies around the world, and thus, much more available and cheaper to purchase.
As I understand it, 4473's are held in the gun shop's records until they go out of business. Then they are transferred to the BATF.
It is the NRA, other pro-gun organizations and individuals, and conservative politicians who are preventing the gun grabbers from allowing the BATF to enter that info into a federal government computer database.
Join the NRA and/or any other legitimate pro-gun, pro-2nd Amendment, pro-FREEDOM organization (GOA, JPFO, etc.), and support their efforts with your dollars.
All right, who are the 10 holdouts?!?
I’ll take another weapon or two to help lower that number to 5 in 100 slackers.
Do you have a bumper sticker...
"SAVE THE BEERS"?
Just don't want a serial RINO, like graham from SC, getting any undeserved kudos.
There is a good 20% of the population that we'd all be better off if they were without fire power.
Looks like we are about 10 per hundred short!
Not suprising at all. The British did not allow the Indians to be armed. Ghandi was very outspoken about it. He called it the blackest of all deeds done to India.
Five 50 cal ammo boxes full of 9mm..how’s that grab you? 8-)
Atta Boy
You understand correctly.
When Clinton's goons shut me down in '94 I had to turn over all my yellow sheets and bound book records to the BATF regional office, and they sent them on to the BATF record depository which is located in an underground cavern in WV. If you bought a gun from a FFL dealer within the last 20 years, which is the period of time which dealers are required to retain records, your initial purchase records of that gun are either on the dealer's bound book and form 4473 records which are open to BATF inspection once each year, or in the WV depository if the dealer is OOB.
In a way it amounts to defacto gun registration, except in many states you can legally sell, trade, or give the gun to someone else in that same state without any record of the transfer. That's why I prefer to buy or swap used guns in very good or better condition from private parties who don't know me instead of new guns from an FFL dealer. That way no one but the seller and me know what I bought or if I bought anything at all. I am gradually disposing of many of the guns I kept when I closed up my little shop and replacing them with guns bought or traded for from private sellers or traders. I had to record all of my and my wife's personal guns when I got the FFL, and some of those are what I call heritage guns that were handed down to my wife and me from grandparents and other family members which I will keep until I depart this earthly sod. At which time they will go to my kids who I hope will in turn pass them on to their kids who I hope will, well you get the idea.
No but I did look at one that said “Nuke the gay baby seals”
How do we arm the other 10 ???
Everybody has to start somewhere, and that sounds like a decent start to me.
I know a guy in FL who owns a registered surplus British Sten gun, and he can fire off that much 9mm ammo on a long weekend at his camp shack in Big Cypress swamp.
Well, to tell the truth, I haven't been in FL for almost a decade and I don't know if he still has it or not. It was worth a good bit of money, and he has probably needed that money by now more than he needed the Sten.
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