U.S. Bought Almost 20 Million Guns Last Year — Second-Highest Year On Record

[solv3nt]

That is what I tell my wife lol shhhhhhhhhh

We put some of the collection in the shipping container back from Hawaii, me to the wife "insurance covers firearms up to $5k, we should be good". "You have $5k worth of guns!?!?!". "Did I say that?"

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

We put some of the collection in the shipping container back from Hawaii, me to the wife "insurance covers firearms up to $5k, we should be good". "You have $5k worth of guns!?!?!". "Did I say that?"

I believe we would be at a loss $5 k does not cover half the scopes

 

[solv3nt]

I believe we would be at a loss $5 k does not cover half the scopes

LOL, that barely covers my spotting scope.

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

LOL, that barely covers my spotting scope.

Mine is like $48 and got it with a gift card

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

LOL, that barely covers my spotting scope.

Swarovski ? Leica ?

 

[Jay Walk]

My bad

 

[Jay Walk]

Here is the real article

Meet America's gun super-owners – with an average of 17 firearms each

Some are collectors with elaborately curated selections of historical firearms, while others are ‘just accumulators’. They say it is surprisingly easy to get to 17

www.theguardian.com

That link includes a photo of a man pointing a pistol at a young girl.

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

That link includes a photo of a man pointing a pistol at a young gi

I noticed that as well

 

[solv3nt]

Swarovski

Swaro with carbon tripod

 

[bolus]

So the NICS database did 38,876,673 background checks last year. Forbes bought their data for this story from these guys

About – Small Arms Analytics

how did they get 20 million firearms from 39 million background checks?

this is a private group whose company makes money by coming up with this data and then sells it to the media. They dont show their sources or their methods for coming up with these numbers.


Sounds like garbage data supports garbage data without showing their work supports garbage media which serves no purpose.