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re: Countries with the most firearms owners, per capita

Posted on 4/28/26 at 7:05 am to
Posted by BHTiger
Charleston
Member since Dec 2017
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Posted on 4/28/26 at 7:05 am to
Until 2 weeks ago I had 23 (including my wifes). Boating accident Damn it.
Posted by Free888
Member since Oct 2019
3266 posts
Posted on 4/28/26 at 7:07 am to
I don’t have any. I lost them all in a boating accident.
Posted by Swampcat
Member since Dec 2003
12686 posts
Posted on 4/28/26 at 7:14 am to
Uk? Civilian owned? Please explain?
Posted by samson73103
Krypton
Member since Nov 2008
9294 posts
Posted on 4/28/26 at 7:20 am to
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You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass."
I remember hearing this years ago and thinking it made perfect sense why Japan did not follow up their cowardly attack on Pearl Harbor with putting boots on the ground. Because of this, I was fairly certain that a ground invasion of the USA was all but impossible. Then the Democrats figured out a way to do it in plain sight
Posted by Penrod
Member since Jan 2011
55431 posts
Posted on 4/28/26 at 7:24 am to
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There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass."
Be more than that.

My lawn has more blades of grass than there are guns in America.

Actually not! I looked it up, then did the math. I only have about 20 million blades of grass. So I revise the above to say that the properties on my street have more.
This post was edited on 4/28/26 at 7:29 am
Posted by GeorgePaton
God's Country
Member since May 2017
5630 posts
Posted on 4/28/26 at 7:26 am to
I'm a history buff. As a young boy I read books on the "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" and his famous "The British are Coming" exhortation.

Revere was tasked with riding from Boston to Lexington to warn Hancock and Adams that British soldiers intended to arrest them and march on to Concord to destroy colonial military supplies. Included in those military supplies was the colonial cache of weapons.

Tyrants hate an armed citizenry. And all these liberal judges constantly releasing these violent criminals back on the streets? All designed to bolster the mafia democrat / marxist argument that we need so-called "meaningful gun control". Gun control is gun denial.

They want that Oval Office. They want those privately owned weapons. They want you and me.

Trump 2026 - They're really after you - I'm just standing in the way
This post was edited on 4/29/26 at 9:14 am
Posted by lake chuck fan
Vinton
Member since Aug 2011
23712 posts
Posted on 4/28/26 at 7:28 am to
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Also, our gun should have been gold-plated with a bald eagle shitting on the other countries.


Posted by castorinho
13623 posts
Member since Nov 2010
87468 posts
Posted on 4/28/26 at 7:32 am to
Would be much higher if we counted all those at the bottom of lakes that were lost during boating accidents
Posted by dakarx
Member since Sep 2018
8442 posts
Posted on 4/28/26 at 7:32 am to

I'd bet their estimates are way off. From collected and inherited war relics to the millions (10's of miklions ?) of 80% AR lowers that have been sold and everything in between.

The ATF has some 830 MILLION 4473's in their 'not a registry' alone.
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
45919 posts
Posted on 4/28/26 at 7:33 am to
That US number is waaaaaaay too low.
Posted by Swampcat
Member since Dec 2003
12686 posts
Posted on 4/28/26 at 7:51 am to
Civilian owned? UK, Australia etc. thought their guns were taken away?
Posted by scrooster
Resident Ethicist
Member since Jul 2012
43720 posts
Posted on 4/28/26 at 11:20 am to
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Uk? Civilian owned? Please explain?

The UK still allows some citizens to own firearms ... mostly shotguns for bird hunting, but a few rifles for stag hunting.

If I'm not mistaken they're required to house, or store, their firearms at a government controlled facility, a licensed facility, much as the Swiss, Austrians and Israelis do .... although I believe that law has been rescended in Israel since the October massacre.

Mark Smith wrote a good book about it, *Israel Disarmed." It's worth a read and a warning to Americans.
Posted by OU Guy
Member since Feb 2022
29711 posts
Posted on 4/28/26 at 11:34 am to
If they checked the bottom of all lakes in US that number would triple
Posted by scrooster
Resident Ethicist
Member since Jul 2012
43720 posts
Posted on 4/28/26 at 12:00 pm to
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I'd bet their estimates are way off. From collected and inherited war relics to the millions (10's of millions) of 80% AR lowers that have been sold and everything in between.

The ATF has some 830 MILLION 4473's in their 'not a registry' alone.

Agreed

Now, with regard to the 4473s being stored in West Virginia ... a lot of those will be multiple sales of the same firearms through dealer trade ins and estate sales.

The NSSF supports the 500-600 million figure based upon manufacturing data and NICS checks. But there are tens of millions more out there that are pre-68.

What dominates the post-NICs era are AR platforms and military grade semi auto pistols. An estimated 40 million AR platformed firearms are out there (including the 80% builds) just since 1994, along with 8-10 million AK platforms imported and/or domestically produced.

Semiauto handguns make up the majority of the rest, on file, by producers such as SIG, Glock, Beretta, S&W, etc.

Shotguns and bolt action rifles round it out with military grade shotguns (high capacity semis and pumps) outnumbering hunting scatterguns.

Hunting bolties continue to dwarf the precision (LRPs) sniper-grade bolt guns.

Regardless, we civilians own a bunch of small arms and stock billions of rounds of ammo.

Posted by SaintsReportExile
Member since Nov 2023
773 posts
Posted on 4/28/26 at 12:19 pm to
This made me realize I need to buy more guns.
Posted by LSU alum wannabe
Katy, TX
Member since Jan 2004
27778 posts
Posted on 4/28/26 at 1:18 pm to
Reminds me I “need” a revolver.

A pretty one.
Posted by Lynxrufus2012
Central Kentucky
Member since Mar 2020
19802 posts
Posted on 4/28/26 at 1:18 pm to
We have freedom of speech because we have the right to bear.

Countries that allow only the criminals and terrorists to be armed will have more of both.
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
89722 posts
Posted on 4/28/26 at 1:26 pm to
So US, Hezbollah and the former Yugoslavia.


Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
89722 posts
Posted on 4/28/26 at 1:33 pm to
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I remember hearing this years ago and thinking it made perfect sense why Japan did not follow up their cowardly attack on Pearl Harbor with putting boots on the ground. Because of this, I was fairly certain that a ground invasion of the USA was all but impossible. Then the Democrats figured out a way to do it in plain sight ?



It's because you need a staging area.


We didn't invade France from the US. We invaded from England.



Now, plenty dumb fricks on this board are totally fine with China grabbing hold of South America. The staging area if you want to invade the US.

Posted by Diamondawg
Mississippi
Member since Oct 2006
38341 posts
Posted on 4/28/26 at 4:03 pm to
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There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass."
Be more than that.
Apparently, people can't take a joke in this place anymore. Damn!
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