2aguy
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Yep......we have a lot of guns...and our gun murder rate went down 49%
our gun violence rate went down 75%....
our violent crime rate went down 72%....
And we went from 200 million guns in the 1990s to between 412-600 million guns....
New Study Shows How Many Legal Guns in America... It's a LOT
At this point we have a reasonable and very conservative, very low estimate of 329 million new firearms to the US market 1999-2016. The question becomes one of estimating how many firearms were made and imported in the period from the invention of modern metallic cartridge, smokeless powder ammunition from, say, 1899 to 1998 — and how many of those survive as practical, usable firearms.
Absent a better idea, we can say that the US inventory of firearms is almost certainly between412 and 660 million, not the lower numbers recently trumpeted in the media.
our gun violence rate went down 75%....
our violent crime rate went down 72%....
And we went from 200 million guns in the 1990s to between 412-600 million guns....
New Study Shows How Many Legal Guns in America... It's a LOT
At this point we have a reasonable and very conservative, very low estimate of 329 million new firearms to the US market 1999-2016. The question becomes one of estimating how many firearms were made and imported in the period from the invention of modern metallic cartridge, smokeless powder ammunition from, say, 1899 to 1998 — and how many of those survive as practical, usable firearms.
Absent a better idea, we can say that the US inventory of firearms is almost certainly between412 and 660 million, not the lower numbers recently trumpeted in the media.