Posted on 09/10/2017 12:54:37 PM PDT by marktwain
By Dean Weingarten
A writer for The Trace recently complained about the numbers of guns Americans own.
From twitter:
Due diligence is indicated. The 270 million number is over a decade old and rather low. We know better now. The best current number is there are over 400 million private firearms in the United States.
You can see the 270 million number was published in 2007.
The 270 million number is repeated on the anti-Second Amendment site smartgunlaws.com, for the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The link fails to mention the estimate from the Small Arms Survey was done in 2007. The data that used for the survey was collected in 2006. The estimate applies to that date, 2006. From smallarmssurvey.org:
Greater gun ownership may lead to greater wealth. The arrow of causality is not determined by the correlation. Uncertainty about the future also leads to more gun ownership. Private gun ownership increased over 30% during the two terms of President Barack Obama.
The analysis presented here relies mostly on static data, creating only a snapshot of the global firearms balance in the year 2006. There are not yet enough dynamic, time-series reports to permit a reliable sense of how civilian holdings are developing in most countries. The general global impression, though, leaves no doubt that civilians are continually acquiring more-powerful guns. There is a connection between per capita wealth and gun ownership, which is strong enough to suggest that so long as gun ownership laws are not changed, greater national wealth leads to greater gun ownership.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
It is worth while to point this out. There are many uncommitted people who need to know that those who wish to disarm them are not trustworthy.
Does that number include all of the muzzle loading rifles and cap and ball black powder revolvers out there I wonder.
Tsk tsk tsk.
That is a lot of boating accidents........
As I read this...
The American Citizen privately own
More Firearms than the
World’s Military And Police Combined !?!
That’s what It says.. correct?
Maybe but the people they are trying to preswade generaly are. It is in our interest to make them look foolish.
Black Powder...
Even California does Not
concern itself with That!
I am sure that it includes all of the ghost guns as well.
This is all very disturbing.
The nation's reservoirs don't have nearly as much water in them as we think they do.
lol...and the iron content of the water is very high.
The nation’s reservoirs don’t have nearly as much water in them as we think they do.
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Good one!
Agreed 270 is way low. I don’t circulate in the gun community as much as I used to now - just other things going on. But I can easily tick off ten people I know IRL that have well over 100 guns each. I cannot tick off more than 5 that I know that own no guns. Guess that is not scientific but just my experience.
A while ago I got into a discussion on FR because I said that everyone should own at least 4 guns. Long rifle, SA rifle, shotgun and a pistol. Some FReeper thought I was crazy. I do have about 50 or so screwdrivers, they all have different uses.
The gungrabbers believe that all “ghost guns” and look like AR-47’s. If only they knew.......
I would add two more, a rifle and handgun chambered in .22 lr. Your list is fine assuming they are all center fire, IMHO.
LMAO!
Those damned Clingers.
I am SOOOO far behind.....
Don Davis must be feeling a touch of envy right now.
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Yup!More of us also.1 million deer hunters in PA alone.
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