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Gun Control & RKBA

jmg257

(11,996 posts)

4. Easy enough to know how many new ones are sold a year - FBI

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Fri Oct 30, 2015, 01:31 PM

Oct 2015

keeps that info re:NCIS.

As for 'the starting point' - good luck with that!

At near 20 MILLION new ones bought a year recently, it certainly is a shit-load!

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How many guns are in America? [View all] SecularMotion Oct 2015 OP

one of the biggest? gejohnston Oct 2015 #1

Well, it IS the brady bunch... beevul Oct 2015 #2

From the falling gun-death rates, it seems less of a "public health issue." Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #3

Easy enough to know how many new ones are sold a year - FBI jmg257 Oct 2015 #4

Then deduct the numbers of firearms seized and destroyed each year by law enforcement. SecularMotion Oct 2015 #5

Sometimes multiple sales occur with a single background check, too. N/T beevul Oct 2015 #6

Wow - so they want to know EXACTLY how many guns there are?? jmg257 Oct 2015 #8

How many guns are destroyed by LEO each year? Snobblevitch Oct 2015 #11

Not enough SecularMotion Oct 2015 #12

The trade groups for the firearm industry thank you for your position krispos42 Oct 2015 #19

Too many ileus Oct 2015 #13

Correction. Straw Man Oct 2015 #15

It's fixed. I copied the typo from the post I replied to. SecularMotion Oct 2015 #16

Interesting. Straw Man Oct 2015 #17

"...1996 ban on federal funding for firearms research..." beevul Oct 2015 #7

It had the same effect as a ban SecularMotion Oct 2015 #9

yet better research is being done by the DoJ's gejohnston Oct 2015 #10

And people, right here on DU... beevul Oct 2015 #14

Oh, SecMo, you and I have been through this before krispos42 Oct 2015 #18

As best I can figure, there are a bit more than 600,000,000... discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2015 #20