My estimate? I never thought of it all that quantitatively before, but I’ve been to local machine gun shoots where there were at least a dozen Ma deuces (ground mount, but I know at least two of them have AA mounts for the things). I do know that there are about 300,000 autos registered, and I GUESSING that about 10% are .50s
Interesting-so about 30K M2 .50 cal MACHINE GUNS? Hmm, I’ll check inot the numbers of how many were made, how many are still in service and the delta would have to account for the rest-battle losses, lend lease etc-I’d think 30K M2s in private ownership is way high, but may be wrong.