What If I Told You That There Were 600 MILLION Guns In The United States?

By Bob Owens

One thing that I’ve learned at Bearing Arms is that the “conventional wisdom” is almost always wrong, and sometimes grossly so.

For example, while there is no definitive way to account for all the firearms in the United States, it has become commonly accepted that there are roughly 300 million firearms in the United States in 2016.

That has always bugged me, especially as that general estimate has only shifted slightly upward in recent years, even though we know that the NBI NICS background checks system has been setting new records for 15 straight months.

WeaponsMan, a gun blog created and manned by a former Special Forces soldier and his peers, makes a compelling argument that the commonly bantered-about estimate of 300 million guns in the United States may potentially be 100 million to 360 million too low.

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 …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms