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I've long-suspected that the ~300 million number was too low. Just estimating off of casual firearm owners I know in the USA, they tend towards 2 firearms per person. Assuming I only know people from the non commie-cuck half, that's ~300 million guns right there.

Once you account for collectors and regular shooters instead of just a couple guns in the closet, you end up with a massive number of additional guns. 600 million sounds far more plausible even at a gut-check level.

I've long-suspected that the ~300 million number was too low. Just estimating off of casual firearm owners I know in the USA, they tend towards 2 firearms per person. Assuming I only know people from the non commie-cuck half, that's ~300 million guns right there. Once you account for collectors and regular shooters instead of just a couple guns in the closet, you end up with a massive number of additional guns. 600 million sounds far more plausible even at a gut-check level.

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Shit man, if I've got 4, and I'll receive my Dad's guns as inheritance, I'll have close to 20...

There's way many more guns than 300 million in this country...

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Many people i know have closer to 30 guns. I would imagine even half of the country owning 5 guns each would be conservative estimate.

If only half the country owns an average of 5 guns, that would be 831,009,125 guns in circulation. This is a conservative number honestly, if the average gun owner owns 1 handgun, 1 rifle, and 1 shot gun (3 guns on average per person) that would work out to around 498,605,475 guns.

It wouldn't be insane to say there could be 1 billion guns in America. Fuck McDonald's can do it with hamburgers, why cant multiple gun companies do it too?

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Particularly since it takes incredible amounts of use to wear out a gun. Something you really only see from milsurp or competitive target practice. It's a safe assumption that 80% of firearms stay in circulation indefinitely.

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Hypotheticals.... If an individual has a smallish pistol collection, say 10 pistols: .22, .32, 9mm, .45, 357, that's only two of each. Add: .22 rifle, 410 & 12ga. shotguns, 30-06, 223, and say a 270, that only 6 long guns, for a total of 16. So, our pretend person has just an average size collection....times say, 86 million owners.

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So hypothetically speaking, lost in a tragic boating accident?

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Why is it nobody ever gets upset that golfers seem to feel the need to own and use more than one club in their sport?

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Or even two sets of clubs?

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Two sets!? Why the fuck would anyone ever need two sets?

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Their wife plays, she is left handed.

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Rookie numbers. Need more. Everyone go buy one

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No one really know, we've used that 300 million number for decades. I think we should use... 600 million!

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Over 1 billion.

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LOL In truth that total is probably much closer to the actual number...