Gun Owners Afraid of Something Other than Global Warming
Source: AmmoLand
Recent statistics released by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) report that for nineteen straight months, and that includes all of 2011, American men & women bought over 10,800,000 plus firearms.
This number based on the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System, better know as NICS, and is the adjusted NICS data derived by the NSSF research division subtracting out NICS purpose code permit checks used by several states such as Kentucky, Iowa and Utah for carrying concealed weapon (CCW) permit application checks as well as checks on active CCW permit databases.
The final number, of 10,800,000, is considered conservative by experts because this number does not account for the multiple purchase of guns at the same time or the guns bought and sold legally, person to person by US residents, which rightly so, do not require a back ground check.
So what does 10,800,000 guns look like?
The guns purchased by American men & women in 2011 is more than one gun for every active duty military member in the worlds fourteen largest armies combined.
- Russia Russian Federation 1,027,000
- North Korea 1,106,000
- South Korea 687,000
- Vietnam 455,000
- India 1,325,000
- China 2,285,000
- Iran 523,000
- United States 1,468,364
- Republic of China 290,000
- Brazil 327,710
- Pakistan 617,000
- Egypt 468,500
- Cuba 49,000
- Ukraine 129,925
- Above Total = 10,758,499
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