[SampleMan]

>46,455 firearms every day. To put that in perspective:

A 50 man platoon is being armed every 90 seconds.

A 6,000 man brigade is being armed every 3 hours.

A 20,000 man division is being armed every 10 hours.

A full 200,000 man army is being armed every 4 days.

At its peak in 1945, the U.S. Army had 8.2 million men. To arm all of them at the current rate of retail gun sales, it would take less than 6 months.

We are now entering year 5.

[TigersEye]

Nice breakdown. I involuntarily laughed when I read the headline. This is exactly why I don't worry about 'the American people being disarmed.' Can you possibly imagine 46k door to door confiscations per day happening? And those would just account for new acquisitions of guns.

If they could find the manpower and if Congress would approve the Trillions of dollars to fund the confiscation teams (not accounting for any resistance at all) it would take several centuries to get ahead of new purchases and start reducing the number of arms owned.