USA Gun Owners Buy 14 Million Plus Guns In 2009 – More Than 21 of the Worlds Standing Armies Combined
That is 14,033,824,000 billion+ rounds of Ammo..you think that is why we have an Ammo shortage?
Washington, DC –-(AmmoLand.com)- Data released by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) for the year reported 14,033,824 NICS Checks for the year of 2009, a 10 percent increase in gun purchases from the 12,709,023 reported in 2008.
So far that is roughly 14,000,000+ guns bought last year!
The total is probably more as many NICS background checks cover the purchase of more than one gun at a time by individuals.
To put it in perspective that is more guns than the combined active armies of the top 21 countries in the world. countries by number of troops
Of the NICS background checks preformed less than and average .005% were denied, showing, overwhelmingly, that law abiding American citizens are the ones buying guns and that criminals are getting their guns elsewhere.
14,033,824,000 billions rounds of Ammo
Assuming each gun buyer bought 1000 rounds of ammo for each purchase, and you and I know that it is way, way more than that, that would be easily 14,033,824,000+ billions rounds of ammo fired by USA gun owners.
What percent of people were killed or injured by this ammo…it is just to infinitesimally small for me to calculate?
Crime At Record Lows
This record year in firearms background checks show that Americans are solidly in-favor of exercising their civil right to Keep and Bear Arms.
In a year were crime has reached an all time record low what is plainly clear is that more guns equal LESS CRIME!
Countries By Number Of Troops: Source Wikipedia
| People’s Republic of China | 2,255,000 |
| United States | 1,473,900 |
| India | 1,414,000 |
| North Korea | 1,106,000 |
| Russia | 1,037,000 |
| Pakistan | 619,000 |
| South Korea | 687,000 |
| Iran | 545,000 |
| Turkey | 514,850 |
| Vietnam | 484,000 |
| Egypt | 450,000 |
| Myanmar | 428,250 |
| Indonesia | 400,000 |
| Brazil | 369,000 |
| Thailand | 306,600 |
| Syria | 296,000 |
| Republic of China | 290,000 |
| Colombia | 285,554 |
| Germany | 284,500 |
| Iraq | 273,618 |
| Sri Lanka | 266,700 |
| 13,785,972 |
| People’s Republic of China | 2,255,000 |
| United States | 1,473,900 |
| India | 1,414,000 |
| North Korea | 1,106,000 |
| Russia | 1,037,000 |
| Pakistan | 619,000 |
| South Korea | 687,000 |
| Iran | 545,000 |
| Turkey | 514,850 |
| Vietnam | 484,000 |
| Egypt | 450,000 |
| Myanmar | 428,250 |
| Indonesia | 400,000 |
| Brazil | 369,000 |
| Thailand | 306,600 |
| Syria | 296,000 |
| Republic of China | 290,000 |
| Colombia | 285,554 |
| Germany | 284,500 |
| Iraq | 273,618 |
| Sri Lanka | 266,700 |
This is an evaluation of overall firearms and ammunition purchases based on low end numbers per Federal NIC instacheck data base Statistics. The numbers presented are only PART of the overall numbers of arms and ammunition that have been sold.
The actual numbers are much higher.
Greg; there are more then 100 million known legal gun owners in this country. Many of which are ex military and Police. The rest have been stalking game and shooting since they were 12. There is no army in the world that wants to take us on as they know they will lose. I keep around 3000 rounds of ammo all the time and reload to save money.
eastwood; It is obvious you have no education and were raised by far left ignorant lefties. You cant understand what you read IE FBI statistics. When are you going to post a gun free zone sign in your front yard so the criminals will know you can be easily robbed and your wife and daughter raped.
Stock up on ammo and learn to reload, then stock up on powder, primers and bullets. If you can find a good supply of lead learn to cast your own bullets as well. I live in New York and they have imposed insane illegal restrictions to our right to keep and bear arms. We will not give up; no registrations will be filled out and just let someone try to confiscate our firearms. MOLON LABE
PROSNO: Gun-Control is not anti-white as a black CHL-holder in Mississippi, I can ensure you of that. In fact, I was told as a child I had not rights nor was I a citizen as the 14 amendment was constitutionally illegal…by a black person. It was my white neighbour who told me otherwise and taught me my rights, taught me to shoot, hunt, track, etc. NO PROSNOS gun-control isn’t about race, though sometimes it can feel that way, it is really about people-control. The people who susport gun-control aren’t anti-white, anti-black, anti-mexican, anti-asian, or anti-native american. They are anti-liberty, anti-personal… Read more »
We may have bought the guns, but the feds(read homeland security)bought the ammo and have an obamatollah open end purchase order.Funny isn’t it,the feds say they don’t have the money to pay the USA’ s bills, but they can buy over one billion rounds ammo and to top that, be given an open end purchase order.
All those guns owned my all those people, but they can’t stop the REAL crime in the country. The crimes perpetrated by people like the bank executives who made all the toxic loans which caused the financial crash, the employers like Wallmart who pay wages so low, the taxpayer has to supplement their pay. Buy all the guns you want, you won’t stop the big-time criminals who buy your politicians.
Gun control, so-called, is anti-white hate. The final goal of gun-control is to disarm all of white, western society so the purges may begin. As long as America is armed, the globalists cannot reduce our population by 80%, which is their stated aim, because America would rise up and put a stop to it. FORGET ABOUT ALL THE POLITICAL AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES THAT TRY TO EXPLAIN OUR DECAYING SOCIETY. Everything the establishment tells you is delusional falsehood. The truth is that our political leaders are insane. They’re not just evil, or pandering. They are organically malevolent and paranoid traitors bent… Read more »
Eastwood is not a Brit, unless Brits look like Ronald McDonald and collect a government check to post phony critique online for propaganda purposes. His rhetoric is the standard boilerplate that the disinfo czars employ.
Did anyone notice the totals from 1998 to 2009? What wasn’t that number used? HAAAAA 110,017,832
ONE HUNDRED TEN MILLION + 2010-2013! I bet there have been over 150 MILLION FIREARMS SOLD IN 15 years! COME GET THEM YOU BRAINLESS MORONS! I’d say you’ll last 2 weeks at the most and WE THE PEOPLE can put your useless glorified welfare recipient bodies in those FEMA coffins you think you’re going to use on us! I’m shakin’ in my pink booties!
Since 2008 the guns sold have reached over SIXTY FIVE MILLION. Good luck with trying to disarm the American public. If I was a politician that insisted on violating my oath to defend the Constitution, I think I’d be riding in a bullet proof car, living in a bullet proof house and wearing asbestos to help me survive a Molotov cocktail attack. These turds better start watching their backs because WE THE PEOPLE ARE GETTING F**KING FED UP.
As for Feinstein and Obama, they both took an oath to uphold and defend the constitution.. they have both broken that oath and should be removed from office SOON
Some good comments here some absolute idiots..Switzerland has a gun in each household and the lowest gun crime rate in the world
In these times, I think that anyone who can afford to by 1,000 rounds, would not hesitate. If they could afford to buy a million rounds they would not hesitate. In war, you can never have too much ammo!!!
I think it is fabulous that that many guns were sold in 2009, but I don't think it is in our best interest to advertise this. This will only be something the anti-gunners will turn around on us as having more guns than standing armies.
…Because sarcasm and "witty" personal attacks against those with different views than your own automatically makes you right. 😉
Don't know where the numbers for this ridiculus article came from. 14,000,000 guns bought = more than 14,000,000,000 rounds of ammo bought. Bullshit! Very few people buy 1,000 rounds or more when buying a weapon. A box or 2, I'd believe. I've bought quite a few weapons in my 65 years, and I've Never purchased that much ammo.
Give em all up folks, your Sovereign, Diane Feinstein has ordered it with your King Obama…
Eastwood, I can clearly see that you are not an American by calling us Yanks or you want us to think that you aren't. If not for our citizen army that tore the British a new one at Lexington and Concord, we would still be under the yoke. If you are American, get a brain. If not, keep you damn nose out of our affairs. You were right on one point. It is not to our best interest to tell how many guns have been sold in a certain amount of time. The gun grabber love to turn that against… Read more »
Greg….the point is "resistance". Die standing up, take some with you. Don't die on your knees. The 2nd Amendment isn't about hunting, sports shooting, collecting, its not even about guns. Its about freedom. People who love freedom understand that.
I'm not a gun owner; probably would be if I lived in the country. Don't dispute anybody's right or desire to own one or more. Am certain that there's no law could keep guns out of anyone's hands who wants one (proof: how were liquor sales affected in the 1920's? Illicit drugs currently). but, really, gun sales are up, crime rate is down for a year= gun ownership deterrs crime? Maybe it does, but that statistic proves nothing about "more guns=less crime". Certainly it doesnt register in Europe where the crime and murder rates are lower than USA and private… Read more »
What I see alot of anymore and no not like is all your local police departments buying all the army surlplus items. Think about it,these little township police dept equipped like a little army. I just have to wonder.
Eastwood – you are also trying to disgrace an American icon,eh? You are far from a Clint. Clint Eastwood more than proved himself in the US Army. Have you got your bowing down for your soon to be King Abdul?
Do you think Mitt Romney hates this country? Barack Obama does! Do you think Mitt Romney detests capitalism, the same capitalism that earned him $300 Million or more? Barack Obama does! Do you believe that Mitt Romney would stop Israel from defending itself or stand aside while Israel is destroyed? Barack Hussein Obama would! Do you think that Mitt Romney would raise taxes and impose more red tape and restrictions on job creators, thus stalling the economy? Barack Obama already has. Do you feel that Mitt Romney wants to destroy the oil, coal and gas industries in the USA, thus… Read more »
The brits have lost their country to the ragheads and they can't even go into certain neighborhoods in their own country because of the muzzies,soon an arab muslim will sit on the thrown of britian and there is absolutely nothing they can or will do about it,thats one of the many reasons the brits are jealous of our right to own guns and defend ourselves.
I've often wondered why brits get their panties in a wadd about our second amendment rights and the fact that we own so many wonderful guns,it doesn't affect their lives so what is the deal? Calling Americans stupid isn't going to change anything so what is behind the hatred? Could it be jealousy? I know that the brits pussied out and gave up their gun rights and their ability to defend their homes,if they ever had it.As an American,I will legally kill the shit out of a mother fucker if he breaks into my home,brits have to put up with… Read more »
I don't know why anyone would respond to eastwood. He is merely trying to start fights because chaos is what these turds thrive on. The tenor and sentiment of his comments suggest a hatred unlike the rational response of an armed citizen reacting to crime. These people are statist change agents who would love nothing more than to turn this country into a bolshevik hell hole. Which it already is thanks to their policies. They care NOTHING for this country or people in general. In fact, they HATE people and freedom of all kinds. That is why they are gun… Read more »
The estimate is approximately over 200 million guns or more are in the possession of American civilians. Over 25 million Americans have had military training and combat experience since Vietnam. Millions of Americans who have never had combat experience or been in the military are adept hunters, who excell in comoflage and stalking, many million more never in the military and do not hunt are adept shooters. So, you might have approximately, 50-75 million Americans, conservatively, that are proficient, knowledgeable and capable with firesarms. In the event of some sort of war, revolution, it would be violent and on a… Read more »
There is a county in the State of Georgia that passed a law each home must have a gun. Sheriffs checked each home and sponsored lessons on gun safety and shooting. Crime went down very low because the criminals coming out of Atlanta new that each home had a gun and knew how to use it.
wtf does a gun; any type protect you form the eye in the sky???
get real people!!! guns can't protect you from a gravity bomb!!!
GOOD! More guns = less crimes & less risk of a tyranny forming here at home.
I thank our founders daily for the 2A, can you all imagine how much worse we'd be treated if we had no guns?
To see the table in the article go to: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/reports/070….
The article equates NICS Checks with gun sales but the note (which they forgot to print in the article!!!) under the table states that one cannot correlate NICS checks with gun sales. WARNING: Conclusion drawn by writer may be skewed.
Enjoy!.
Switzerland requires citizens to own firearms. There is a town in Georgia and a town in Utah where is a city ordinance that all citizens shall own guns with a few reasonable exceptions – mental illness, criminal record, etc.
I buy a new gun every two months or so and I would never purchase another pos glock,glocks suck big donkey dicks,I would rather own a Smith & Wesson.
My my Eastwood, you are definitely no "daisy." Maybe you went to some community college and now think you are educated. However, if you truly were, you would know what a valid correlation is! I have written many of them.
This one is a positive correlation, confirming one fact already substantiated, to another. Assuming the data is correct, this is a valid study.
So, Eastwood, or should I call you "Clint" your "Id," so to speak, look under your brain fog and maybe you might WAKE UP!!!!!!
Doc
"There is no correlation (sorry, ‘link’) between high gun sales and lowering crime rates."
???
Try telling that to Anne Pearston and Tony Blair, two key individuals in Britain's prohibition of handguns in 1997.
"Robert USMC on March 4th, 2010 at 10:56 AM
•Slim, Libertarian, Atheist, American gun owner here!
Any questions, prejudgemental Brits?
(The British have been raging against American self defense since the Revolutionary War, and with the exception of WW2, what makes you think they are going to stop now?)"
HOORAH ROB! 2 years late but HOORAH
Eastwood is the epitome of the leftist fool. He ignores facts and spews his hatreds towards anyone who disagrees with him. Lucky for us here in the USA, only about 15% of our people are as dumb as he is…. ie.. liberals.
Almost two years ago this Eastwood fella made these comments. Yes he was a schmuck. We all knew that after reading his posts, their was no actual need for the other 300 coments that argued his half witted post.
From this gun collecting/shooting dem may peace, love, and happines be with you always.
Eastwood said on January 30th, 2010 at 7:29 PM: "There is no correlation (sorry, ‘link’) between high gun sales and lowering crime rates. That’s just two unconnected statistics." "There IS a correlation (sorry again, ‘link’) between the violence of US society and its high gun sales." You are confusing two concepts. There is a positive correlation between high gun sales and lower crime rates and a negative correlation between the violence of US society and gun sales. Corelation does not guarantee causation so we cannot affirm fron this correlation that more guns mean lower crime rates (there are other ways… Read more »
Eastwood: Intelligent statements from a Limey who long ago abdicated freedom for the Queen. What is it like to live, clinging to the skirt of a 100 year old flesh eating monarch? You must be proud to be a servant to that old hag. You have been living on your reputation for about, ever since those gun totin rabble kicked you out of our country. Newsflash, rights don't come from the Queen mother. However, go on thinking you are still somehow important in the world. People aren't dying to move to England, they are dying to move to the USA,… Read more »
Hate to point this out ‘old chap’, the British never invaded America. You WERE the Brits when you gained your freedom from the Crown My ancester James ketcherside lived in scotland, and was a fredom fighter, his entire family was be-headed except him and his brother. they made a homemade raft, and took 9 months of provisions with them, and were blown back by a storm taking them 10 months to arive, and the only thing James had to eat for the last 10 days of the trip was to suck on a soup bone. then when they arived, they… Read more »
"The Gun Is Civilization" by Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret) Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it. In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes… Read more »
Eastwood, get over the policy arguments. People in the US have a right to own firearms, and that right is here to stay, so long as the 2nd amendment, and the various state right to bear arms clauses, stay intact.
If you don't like the right to bear arms that are wrapped within the constitutions, then change the constitution! Ha, good luck!
Personally I think the only major group in society who really need guns are farmers. I do understand the fun in "plinking" but I believe this should be done in carefully run shooting ranges were the range itself owns the weapons and these weapons be fairly unrestricted (automatic weapons etc.) But the general should only own hunting weapons and weapons necessary for farmers (Bolt Action Rifles and Shotguns). Alos in political views I am a trotskyite communist (That is follow the teachings of Leon Trotsky a high ranking member of the Russian Communist Party during the 1917 revolution who was… Read more »
Our Imperial guest is quite wrong. While we were us in the first go around, the War of 1812 was a different situation. The dear red coated soldiers burned Washington, D.C. in their efforts to defeat us. Good Old Hickory soundly kicked them between the wickets in New Orleans.
Eastwood,
Get your nasty British ass off this board. You people never change…I'll box your ears you whiny little mouse.
Anyone that DOES NOT UNDERSTAND that an armed citizenry DOES equal less crime is an idiot. Want proof?! Look at Chicago morons! And if you are against ANY part of the Constitution of the United States of America, then you are an enemy to my freedom and need to move to a country where you can be up to your ass in socialist tyranny like China where you need permission to have a thought! However for these left extremists that won't be a problem since thoughts for them are rare as the unicorn. Don't like the second amendement then get… Read more »
@David: Enjoy your friendship with the muslims there who are taking over your country and will change your famous civil law into sharia because you are too scared to stand up for yourself. Scared? Why is it you Americans think we do not want guns? There is a very large section of the population that would like the righ to bear arms again. No we are not scared, just frustrated! (And sick of woolly minded PC leftie liberals and do-gooders) @Joey: The nice thing about Americans having guns is we won’t have to use them against a British Invasion for… Read more »
Just want to point out: My right as an American citizen to own a gun has nothing to do with statistics. The truth is that American crime rates are lower than our counterparts in Europe (https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kouri/060220), so those liberals who seek to pursue that straw man will find the ground ripped out from under their feet swiftly enough. But the real argument and point is this: I am a free man, the descendant of Saxons, Picts, the Cherokee, and Romans. I am not some serf to be disarmed at my lord's whim. I am not a peasant to be slaughtered… Read more »
Hey, all you anti-gunners…whether you like it or not, (our) guns are here to stay.
I don't care what laws are passed, what taxes/fees are put in place, what pressure is brought to bear by an armed government or unarmed citizenry…we won't be giving up our weapons.