2aguy
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This guy tries to get a more accurate number on the number of guns in the United States...and still, keep in mind, that as we were getting to this number...
--the gun murder rate went down 49%
--The accidental gun death rate went down...
--the non fatal gun accident rate went down...
Total US Firearms: Not 300 Million, but 412-660 Million? | WeaponsMan
We believe that the correct number is much higher — somewhere between 412 and 660 million. You may wonder how we came to that number, so buckle up (and cringe, if you’re a math-phobe, although it never gets too theoretical): unlike most of the academics and reporters we linked above, we’re going to use publicly available data, and show our work.
What if we told you that one ATF computer system logged, by serial number, 252,000,000 unique firearms, and represented only those firearms manufactured, imported or sold by a relatively small number of the nation’s tens of thousands of Federal Firearms Licensees?
--the gun murder rate went down 49%
--The accidental gun death rate went down...
--the non fatal gun accident rate went down...
Total US Firearms: Not 300 Million, but 412-660 Million? | WeaponsMan
We believe that the correct number is much higher — somewhere between 412 and 660 million. You may wonder how we came to that number, so buckle up (and cringe, if you’re a math-phobe, although it never gets too theoretical): unlike most of the academics and reporters we linked above, we’re going to use publicly available data, and show our work.
What if we told you that one ATF computer system logged, by serial number, 252,000,000 unique firearms, and represented only those firearms manufactured, imported or sold by a relatively small number of the nation’s tens of thousands of Federal Firearms Licensees?
