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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I support gun control 100%, I hate guns. I wish we could get rid of all of them. Every other country that passed landmark gun ban legislation after a massacre seems to have started at a much lower baseline of guns in circulation. Even if we repealed the 2nd amendment tomorrow and banned every single type of firearm besides maybe single shot hunting rifles, how long would it take to confiscate and destroy all 430 million guns? Decades? And we have probably 20% of the country being adamantly opposed to any kind of gun ban... they won't comply. Are we completely stuck? It's depressing.[/quote]

americans buy on average 30 million firearms a year, 475 million has been sold in the last 20 years.

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_-_month_year.pdf/view

firearms sales have tripled from 10 million a year in 1999 to close to 30 million a year today.

Today, every single year, american buy somewhere around ~20-22 million handguns and 8-10 million long guns rifles/shoguns. by comparison, all US police, federal law enforcement and military procures under 100,000 long guns a year. The world's military/police forces on a good year procures ~300-400k long guns a year. The american civilian procures more long guns than the entire police/military of the planet by somewhere close to 15-20 to 1.

With the advent of 3d printing, it is getting easier and easier to manufacture firearms from your basement.

Threats to ban so called "assault weapons" have only led to skyrocketing sales, as america household stockpile of arms begins to even dwarf that of the soviet stockpile during the coldwar readied for a mainland invasion of europe.

CIA estimates back in the 90s that the soviet old coldwar stockpile of AK/RPKs/SKS during the coldwar was about 50-75 million, maybe 2/3 still functional

American in the last 20 years have stockpilled somewhere close to 60-80 million semi auto rifles. american civilian arsenal is starting to dwarf that of the soviet stockpiles[/quote]

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