U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people

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[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.

[Logical me]

In fact, this is precisely why the U.S. won't be under a dictatorship any time in the foreseeable future.

If elected, Hitlery will be the closest.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Are they sure it isn’t Palestine?

[from occupied ga]

Does a tazer count?

No.

[processing please hold]

The 10% that don’t have guns can reload for us. lol

[Lurking in Kansas]

Somebody must be gettin more than their share!...........

Me! (heh heh)

[from occupied ga]

If elected, Hitlery will be the closest.

If elected, Guiliani will be the closest.

[SJSAMPLE]

That means I’m pickin up the slack for 15 other people?

C’mon, loafers.

[SLB]

Bump

[hophead]

“USA, Finland and Switzerland .... that’s pretty good company to have.”

Funny how the most heavily armed are the ones who have not been invaded by an armed army. Must just be a coincidence.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Now, what we need to do is correlate the 9 of 10 with crime. So it will now be, states with gun control laws have how many gun crimes committed per capita vs those states without liberal gun control laws.

[Blood of Tyrants]

It would be great if they were evenly distributed, but I think the actual number of GUN OWNERS is around 40%.

[processing please hold]

We’re having our first baby in early December.

Congratulations!

I hope all goes well with the pregnancy, delivery and y'all have a healthy baby.

[Charlespg]

Only about 12 percent of civilian weapons are thought to be registered with authorities.

None of them should be

[Lurking in Kansas]

;-(

You need to buy American.

[from occupied ga]

Funny how the most heavily armed are the ones who have not been invaded by an armed army. Must just be a coincidence.

We've been invaded, but the government isn't doing anything about it gringo.

[Natchez Hawk]

What about the other 10?

Somebody’s not pulling their weight.

[LibLieSlayer]

:-)
LLS

[Noumenon]

You are clearly a man of taste and discernment. The missus and I favor P229s in .40 for standard carry and Walther PPKS as backup. Every couple should have magazines and calibers in common.

Now I must heigh me out to yon Gun Shoppe to do my part for this Day.

[LexBaird]

Pollster: How many guns in your household?

LB: I decline to state.

[Joe Brower]

Interesting data on India and China.