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Re:Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich by forgetsusername on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:18PM (#13484168)
>Thanks for letting me know you have cool firearms, ammunition, and god knows what else.

I'm pretty sure many of those card carrying NRA members would love for you to show up on their doorstep to take possession of their firearms and survival stash...

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Re:Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich by scarecrowbob on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:31PM (#13484313)
* That love pending being home to enact their castle-doctrine fantasies.

It's only anecdotal, but the one thief that I knew loved handguns as they are small, have real value, and are easy to sell.

The fact that no one is going to go into a house to steal stuff if they think someone is there to protect it pairs just fine with the fact that often folks aren't home.

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Re:Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich by 0xfeba on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:41PM (#13484454)
It's not so anecdotal. The majority (70%) of gun homicides in the US are with (cheap) handguns[1]:

Total firearm homicides: 8,454

Handgun homicides: 5,782

Rifles, Shotguns, other: ~700

Which, with other stats, goes to show IMO, that "Assault Weapon Bans" are more grandstanding than anything else.

[1] - https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

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