Americans own nearly half the privately owned guns in the world

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But the argument I hear against that is that cars have a use, whereas guns are designed to hurt and kill.
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You can tell your Brit Anti's and ours here, guns are one of the reasons that we are not Subjects, but Citizens.
Our Federal Government seems to be worried about Guns in the Hands of Citizens.
That shows me that the second Amendment of OUR Constitution is still working after all these years.;)
 
Keep in mind that America is (or was) very wealthy. We also own a large portion of the TVs, cell phones, and cars. It has more to do with disposable income and freedom to own than anything else.
 
that just makes us the biggest targets for the domestic antis and now the international antis
 
Carl N. Brown said:
What was it that Rahm Emannuel famously said about a crisis.....?

Rahm Emmanuel: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."

Moral Panick got us prohibition of alcohol, prohibition of marijuana, bans on Tales from the Crypt comic books, the Satanic Ritual Abuse prosecutions, hmmm.
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It was a rhetorical question, FWIW.
 
There are 100,000,000 more firearms in the U. S. than there were 20 years ago, and the crime rate for crimes involving firearms has gone down over that time span.
 
Starship Troopers the book was FAR superior to the movie...

Guns are designed to do one thing, and one thing only - to expel a slug or slugs, usually of a soft metal, down a steel tube by the action of expanding gases. Where that expelled slug goes is entirely up to the user.

So we own half the PRIVATELY held firearms in the world? I'd like to know the amount of GOVERNMENT held small arms and light weapons, and which country owns the most of them.
 
I took a 23 year old young woman shooting today. Born in Alabama and raised in Florida and never fired a gun before today.
Now she has fired the following:
Browning Buckmark
Ruger MKII
Phoenix HP22a
Ruger Single Six
Heritage Rough Rider with 22 and .22 HMR
Hi-Point C9
Ruger P85
Keltec PF9
Keltec P3AT
Kimber Custom 1911
ATI 1911 in .45 as well as the .22 conversion
Colt Trooper .357
Colt Detective 38
Winchester Model 77 .22
Ruger 10/22
AK 22
Mossberg 715T
S&W M&P .22
DPMS AR-15 as well as a .22 conversion
Savage 25-06
Beretta a391
We shot for 3 hours and she wants to go back this weekend. Didn't care for the pocket guns(understandable) but enjoyed the 1911s and the AR.
It always helps to blow up some tannerite to make a lasting impression.
 
The utter hypocrisy of the antis never ceases. How many people die in auto deaths every year? Where is all the yellow journalism in outrage against automobiles? If they truly believe their tripe of "if it saves just one life", then get rid of the automobiles.
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Crazy ain't it? ...and you don't even have to be 21 to buy and drive your rolling death machine...

The absurdity of the anti-gun crowd is mind boggling to me.
 
jrdolall said:
I took a 23 year old young woman shooting today. Born in Alabama and raised in Florida and never fired a gun before today.
Now she has fired the following:
Browning Buckmark
Ruger MKII
Phoenix HP22a
Ruger Single Six
Heritage Rough Rider with 22 and .22 HMR
Hi-Point C9
Ruger P85
Keltec PF9
Keltec P3AT
Kimber Custom 1911
ATI 1911 in .45 as well as the .22 conversion
Colt Trooper .357
Colt Detective 38
Winchester Model 77 .22
Ruger 10/22
AK 22
Mossberg 715T
S&W M&P .22
DPMS AR-15 as well as a .22 conversion
Savage 25-06
Beretta a391
We shot for 3 hours and she wants to go back this weekend. Didn't care for the pocket guns(understandable) but enjoyed the 1911s and the AR.
It always helps to blow up some tannerite to make a lasting impression.
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Three hours of shooting with 24 guns (counting the conversions as two each), with someone who's never shot a gun before?

That's 7.5 minutes each, and let's not forget this three hours includes set-up time, loading time, conversion time, and basic instruction time.

Two words:

Holy cow!

Slow your Mustang down, Sally!

;)
 
I'm guessing it's probably about half of Americans that own that half the world's privately owned guns.
 
That's 7.5 minutes each, and let's not forget this three hours includes set-up time, loading time, conversion time, and basic instruction time
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My total time spent was more than three hours with all of these for sure. I have a couple of advantages. My range is 50 yard from my house with everything set up including an awning for this time of year. Good thing too since yesterday was the hottest day of the year. I had all the guns out when she arrived. I keep mags loaded for most of my guns so all mags were loaded prior to leaving the house. Conversions were done by my son during water breaks but none of these conversions takes more than 2 minutes and that is the 1911.
The first two hours or so were spent working on stance and grip and shooting .22 pistols. I always forget that people don't automatically know how to rack a slide or grip a pistol. Once she was comfortable with these issues we worked a little bit on accuracy but my goal was to get her comfortable handling weapons for the first time. Once I could look at her face and see that she was comfortable we progressed quickly through the larger calibers since the goal wasn't to make her a marksman yet.
Most of the rifles were fired once or twice and the 25-06 only once as I wasn't set up to shoot from a distance. We only shot it so she could blow up some tannerite which surprisingly took only one shot.
I was actually a bit surprised that, as a complete newbie, she wanted to shoot the 1911 in .45 but she fired a full mag. By that time she was comfortable with her grip so it really wasn't an issue.
She wants to come out this weekend and shoot with the gang so my guess is that we will soon own 1/2+ of the world's guns. Tomorrow I plan to have her shoot maybe 5 guns and start working on familiarity and a little accuracy.She did not like the pocket pistols, understandably as they are snappy, but she liked the .357 and the 12g as well as all the .22 semis. She thought the Hi Point had "too much kick" but 30 minutes later she fired the 1911 8 times. It would be nice if all new gun owners had the opportunity to shoot a lot of different guns before walking in the store and buying what the sales clerk advises.
 
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My total time spent was more than three hours with all of these for sure. I have a couple of advantages. My range is 50 yard from my house with everything set up including an awning for this time of year...
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Sweet!

My wife and I took our three kids (11, 13, 14) out to shoot real guns (not BB guns) for the first time about a month or so ago. Just never got out to do this with them over the last few years, what with the combination of the kids ages and my deployment schedule, retirement, new job, and what-not. They were too young and uninterested while I was still active duty and things just didn't come together enough to allow just me to do much target shooting after retirement until recently.

It was a hoot, too! They were excited about it, with my 13 year old daughter even calling dibs on the 12 gauge shotgun for her first time shooting. The youngest latched onto Mommy's bolt action .22 and stayed with that for nearly an entire 550 round box of ammo...and she turned out to be a natural.

My 13 year old practically obliterated a zombie target with her first shot. I may be in the market for a .410 soon to take her rabbit hunting. Pretty good with Mommy's .22, as well. Loves my .22 Automag (says it's her favorite pistol so far).

My 14 year old son put his boy Scout BB gun skills to good use on paper targets at 100 feet with my .22 Magnum rifle. Loves my Beretta 92FS. complained loudly every time he fired the shotgun, but couldn't get him to put it down.

Didn't have time to shoot my Colt 1991A1 or my .22 LR rifle, though. Simply too much coordination and supervision to safely go through them in the time we spent at the range.

Next time we go to the range we'll be limiting things a bit more. Fewer guns, instead of ALL of them, less hassle to cart and set things up. Maybe take the kids in ones or twos, as well. It's a lot of work concentrating on everything to make sure no safety issues pop up to spoil things.

Not to mention the matter of the summer heat to deal with...Mommy doesn't do well in hot weather for long periods, for one, and it's easier to deal with one or two kids at a time in the heat.

I plan to continue doing my part to increase that percentage of private citizen ownership of firearms, too. I'm working towards a Colt SAA for myself, and possibly a Walther PPK/S for my wife.

Can't have too many firearms, you know.

:):)
 
I've found that it's easier for a beginning shooter to learn just one firearm while starting out.

From their perspective, there's an awful lot of new things to absorb all at once, without having to learn the different ways that guns are operated. Safeties trigger pulls and the like.

This is just my opinion.....I'm not trying to tell anyone how to teach.

And as to the original topic, I'm sure trying to do my part.
 
CZguy said:
I've found that it's easier for a beginning shooter to learn just one firearm while starting out.

From their perspective, there's an awful lot of new things to absorb all at once, without having to learn the different ways that guns are operated. Safeties trigger pulls and the like.

This is just my opinion.....I'm not trying to tell anyone how to teach.

And as to the original topic, I'm sure trying to do my part.
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I agree, in general. My selection isn't nearly as wide and varied as some, like jrdolall's. And if it was, I would likely have limited myself to quite a bit less, even if it was only one person. Of course, he also has the advantage of owning the property he shoots on, so it's far more convenient for him to set up a lot than it is for me.

For my own part, to captivate of our children's interest we wanted to give them a choice for their first firearms to shoot, but not limit them to their first choice for the two or three hours we'd be at the range. Each kid has different tastes and likes.

For example, I said my 13 year old daughter called dibs on the shotgun as the first thing she wanted to shoot. But I can't realistically expect her to pump out 12 gauge rounds for two hours of productive entertainment. It's too heavy and it would be heck on her shoulder really quickly.

We brought three .22 rifles, one 12 gauge shotgun, and three pistols. One rifle and one pistol went un-shot, as it was.

So they each got to try at least two different guns (if they wanted) and could bang away for quite a bit of the time in pure fun, with the appropriate basic instructions and safety oversight.

Next time on the range the choices will be more limited, as well as the number of kids, to allow more focused instruction and training.


As often said in The Box O' Truth, "shooting stuff is fun".

;)
 
Blackstone said:
But the argument I hear against that is that cars have a use, whereas guns are designed to hurt and kill. To which I have no response to...someone help me out here!
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I suggest reading the Declaration of Independence. In this document the Amercain Citizen is tasked with the Civic Responsibility of overthrowing their own government if all other methods to correct problems fail. No document in the World places this responsibility upon its Citizens and it cannot be done if the people are not armed. That's what you tell them.
 
I understand just how vague those numbers are, particularly for guns in the USA. But even so, that statistic brightens my day.
 
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