But gun ownership is on the decline, they say
By the numbers on gun ownership:
The Small Arms Survey estimates there are 393,300,000 civilian-owned firearms in the United States. The survey, performed by the Graduate Institute of Geneva, estimated the United States military has about 4.5 million firearms. It put the number of firearms owned by police throughout the United States at just over 1 million.
That means American civilians own nearly 100 times as many firearms as the U.S. military and nearly 400 times as many as law enforcement.
Sorry gun control proponents, but that many people aren’t going to just turn them all in.
June 21st, 2018 at 5:19 pm
It amazes me when someone states that it’s impossible to deport 12 million illegal aliens but no problem at all to collect 300+ million guns. Come and take them…
June 21st, 2018 at 10:06 pm
The antigunners go on to say, based on some really skeevy survey results, that all those guns are owned by less than a third or so of the US population. And of that minority, about 3% of the population owns most of the guns. So it comes down to getting 3% of the population made illegal or using them for first rounds of confiscation or maybe just put them in the cattle car first.
Yes, it makes no rational sense, and is based on very infirm survey foundations, and is a pipe dream of a wishful thought by antigunners. But it is what they think.
To which the proper response is, “To hell with you.”
June 22nd, 2018 at 7:51 am
I’m inclined to go with the estimate WeaponsMan came up with a couple years ago (400-600M guns in civilian hands). I don’t think many of those surveys are worth the electrons they displace simply because people don’t want to tell strangers about their guns.
June 22nd, 2018 at 8:18 am
It’s also an informal vote. A plurality, if not a majority, wants at least one gun. Total confiscation is off the table.
June 22nd, 2018 at 9:51 am
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
We found that, without the means to resist the tyranny of the British Crown, this Declaration would have been wasted ink on worthless paper. Against the most powerful empire then in existence, Americans had resolve, distance, vastness of territory, and firearms that were equal or better than those wielded against them by Royal troops and the Hessian mercenaries that George III sent to subdue the colonies. One of the first things that the British army attempted, which sparked the shooting war, was to confiscate arms and powder from the colonists.
The lesson of the Revolution is enshrined in the Bill of Rights as the 2nd Amendment. Liberty is safeguarded in this nation by free citizens who have the means to resist oppression by their own government; the government that wishes to trample those God given liberties is thereby given cause to fear the power of resistance in the hands of patriots.
In every modern era dictatorship, from the Soviet Union to NAZI Germany, from Communist China to the Soviet Iron Curtain, the first step has always been to disarm the private citizen. Then the state sanctioned murder begins.
Molon Labe.
June 22nd, 2018 at 9:58 am
Turn them in or turn them over? At least the ones “registered” by 4473.
The private marketplace works both ways.
June 22nd, 2018 at 11:51 am
@JimB, and they’d have no problem with hired government guns “separating families” in order to attempt confiscation or collection of guns in the hands of citizens.