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Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by ummwhat on Friday May 03, 2019 @11:20AM (#19819181)
iirc the number of guns in America is almost exactly equal to the population but the distribution is skewed a lot. About 2/3rds of Americans don't own a gun. The ones who do on average own 3, with a lot of them having 1 and a few of them having dozens.
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Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by dfrage on Friday May 03, 2019 @01:05PM (#19820159)
You're recalling a very old guess; an analysis since then https://web.archive.org/web/20190121202815/http://weaponsman... puts the number anywhere from 412 to 660 million.

The old estimates are bad, for example, 275 million new in to the market guns were counted by a system the BATFE introduced in 1999 for high volume manufacturers, importers and wholesalers, a total of 66 FFLs, that no academic had previously used in an estimate.

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