There are more guns than people in the United States. In a nation of 330,196,902 people, as of Saturday 10 April 2021,1 on that same day guns in civilian hands totaled an estimated 393 million weapons.2 Forty percent of adult Americans own a gun or live with someone who owns one,3 although both the total number of guns and gun owners may actually be considerably higher. Because of the various restrictions at both the federal and state level, the laws have been deliberately structured to make getting firm numbers impossible. To quote a research paper by Alex Yablon on this issue, “The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which regulates gun sales, even faces severe restrictions on how much it can digitize its records of firearms transactions, lest they form a de facto national gun inventory.”4
You may find this hard to believe but in the United States there are more gun shops than supermarkets, McDonald’s, Subways, or Starbucks.
What is particularly interesting is that the number of gun owners is going up exponentially. According to the the Firearm Industry […]
The problem is the second amendment to the Constitution: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Since the military and law enforcement serve as a “Militia”, this amendment is obsolete and should be rescinded.
That’s Communist