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1 for every 2 people?
1 for every 2 citizens?
300 million?
2 for every 1 citizen?
unrelated but interesting:
1 for every 2 citizens?
300 million?
2 for every 1 citizen?
- Time, 14 Jun 2016: "270 to 310 million." (What, Time still publishes? Who reads it?)
- NPR, 5 Jan 16: "more than 300 million guns."
- Violence Policy Center (gun-ban group), Jun 15: "310 million."
- The Grauniad, 27 Oct 15: "270 million to 310 million."
- Washington Post, 5 Oct 15: "357 million." (Note that this article, by the Post's Christopher Ingraham, appears to be the only attempt to actually work the data). Unusually for a Post reporter, Ingraham contacted both pro- and anti-gun academics.
- Mother Jones, 8 Jul 2015): "300 million guns."
- New York Times, 9 Mar 13: "280 to 320 million."
Total US Firearms: Not 300 Million, but 412-660 Million? The numbers are all over the place, and many of them seem to recursively refer to one another, not exactly building confidence in the rigor of their development. But they seem to cluster around a Narrative-friendly 300 million. But what if that number is wrong? We believe that the correct number is much higher — somewhere between 412 and 660 million. You may wonder how we came to that number, so buckle up (and cringe, if you're a math-phobe, although it never gets too theoretical): unlike most of the academics and reporters we linked above, we're going to use publicly available data, and show our work.
unrelated but interesting:
If you are on the internet, you are hackable - other people probably have access - like Russians.For legal reasons, A2K is kept separate from all other agency computer systems, and while it is on the public internet for maintenance purposes, it has no direct connection to any other ATF database.
, I'd tend to believe it's much, much higher 
