Posted on 08/03/2012 3:49:05 PM PDT by marktwain
My best guess of 320 million firearms in the United States is based on an ATF estimate of 260 million at the end of 1999, and about 65 million produced and imported since then (minus exports).
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-1838600008.html#A
I seem to recall seeing numbers for the U.S. estimated at 290 million, but I do not see a source for those numbers.
a. delusional
b. clueless about American history
c. a habitual govt under-estimator
d. looking for trouble
e. all of the above
Well, I for one have always been suspicious of those who claim some sort of boating accident.
OTOH, I suffered grievous weapons and ammo losses when hurricane Isabelle rolled up the Chesapeake Bay and inundated the lower floor of my home on the banks of the South River.
Just like that, at 4am, everything got sucked out into the bay south of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge...lock, stock, and barrel...
They already know all there is to know about WWII - "We dropped atomic bombs on people."
What is more interesting is the number of people who might be available to operate those firearms.
Perhaps 150 Million American citizens have ready access to firearms. They either already know how to shoot, or they know that they can learn.
The total number of members of all active military, reserve military, and paramilitary, in ALL the nations of the world is: 73,041,002
How many gun owners are there in the United States of America?
"Answer: Number of guns and gun owners in USA. Most estimates range between 39% and 50% of US households having at least one gun(that's about 43-55 million households). The estimates for the number of privately owned guns range from 190 million to 300 million. Removed those that skew the stats for their own purposes the best estimates are about 45% or 52 million of American households owning 260 million guns).
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_gun_owners_are_there_in_the_United_States_of_America#ixzz22XowO8Ct"
List of countries by number of military and paramilitary personnel
This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
State | Active Military | Reserve Military | Paramilitary | Total | Total per 1000 capita | Active per 1000 capita |
North Korea[126][note l] | 1,106,000 | 8,200,000 | 189,000 | 9,495,000 | 418.9 | 48.8 |
Republic of Korea[159][note s] | 687,000 | 8,000,000 | 4,500 | 8,691,500 | 173.6 | 13.7 |
Vietnam[193][note y] | 455,000 | 5,000,000 | 40,000 | 5,495,000 | 62 | 5.1 |
India[76][note f] | 1,325,000 | 2,142,821 | 1,300,586 | 4,768,407 | 3.9 | 1.1 |
People's Republic of China[37] | 2,285,000 | 800,000 | 1,500,000 | 4,585,000 | 3.4 | 1.7[38][39] |
Iran[78][79][note g] | 523,000 | 1,800,000 | 1,510,000 | 3,833,000 | 57.7 | 7.9 |
United States of America[187][188] | 1,458,219 | 1,458,500 | 11,035 | 2,927,754 | 9.3 | 4.7[note y]}} |
Russian Federation[145][note p] | 1,027,000 | 754,000 | 449,000 | 2,230,000 | 15.9 | 7.3 |
Republic of China[169] | 290,000 | 1,657,000 | 17,000 | 1,964,000 | 85.5 | 12.6 |
Brazil[24][note b] | 327,710 | 1,340,000 | 0 | 1,667,710 | 8.4 | 1.6 |
Pakistan[129][130] | 617,000 | 513,000 | 304,000 | 1,434,000 | 8.2 | 3.5 |
Egypt[52] | 468,500 | 479,000 | 397,000 | 1,344,500 | 17 | 5.9 |
Cuba[43][note c] | 49,000 | 1,159,000 | 26,500 | 1,234,500 | 107.8 | 4.3 |
Ukraine[182] | 129,925 | 1,000,000 | 84,900 | 1,214,825 | 26.6 | 2.8 |
Turkey[177][178][179] | 666,576 | 378,700 | 152,200 | 1,197,476 | 15.6 | 8.7 |
Indonesia[77] | 302,000 | 400,000 | 280,000 | 982,000 | 4.1 | 1.3 |
Israel[82] | 176,500 | 565,000 | 8,050 | 749,550 | 103.6 | 24.4 |
Syria[168] | 325,000 | 314,000 | 108,000 | 747,000 | 34.3 | 14.9 |
Thailand[172][note x] | 305,860 | 245,000 | 113,700 | 664,560 | 10.1 | 4.6 |
Iraq[80] | 191,957 | 0 | 386,312 | 578,269 | 20 | 6.6 |
Spain[160] | 128,013 | 319,000 | 80,210 | 527,223 | 13 | 3.2 |
Singapore[154][note r] | 72,500 | 356,500 | 93,800 | 522,800 | 112.2 | 15.6 |
Myanmar[118] | 406,000 | 0 | 107,250 | 513,250 | 10.7 | 8.4 |
Colombia[40] | 285,220 | 61,900 | 144,097 | 491,217 | 11.2 | 6.5 |
Algeria[3] | 147,000 | 150,000 | 187,200 | 484,200 | 14.2 | 4.3 |
Italy[83][note h] | 293,202 | 41,867 | 142,933 | 478,002 | 8.2 | 5 |
Belarus[15] | 72,940 | 289,500 | 110,000 | 472,440 | 49 | 7.6 |
France[60][note e] | 352,771 | 70,300 | 46,390 | 469,461 | 7.3 | 5.5 |
Greece[66][67] | 177,600 | 280,000 | 4,000 | 461,600 | 43 | 16.5 |
Germany[64] | 250,613 | 200,812 | 0 | 451,425 | 5.5 | 3 |
Malaysia[104][note k] | 109,000 | 296,300 | 24,600 | 429,900 | 16.7 | 4.2 |
United Kingdom[184][185][186] | 197,780 | 212,400 | 0 | 410,180 | 6.7 | 3.2 |
Morocco[116] | 195,800 | 150,000 | 50,000 | 395,800 | 12.7 | 6.3 |
Finland[59][note d] | 22,600 | 361,500 | 7,550 | 391,650 | 74.6 | 4.3 |
Peru[135][note n] | 114,000 | 195,000 | 77,000 | 386,000 | 13.1 | 3.9 |
Azerbaijan[11] | 66,940 | 300,000 | 15,000 | 381,940 | 46.4 | 8.1 |
Bulgaria[26] | 34,975 | 302,500 | 34,000 | 371,475 | 51.6 | 4.9 |
Mexico[109] | 267,506 | 39,899 | 36,500 | 343,905 | 3.1 | 2.4 |
Philippines[136][note o] | 120,000 | 171,000 | 40,500 | 331,500 | 3.4 | 1.2 |
Eritrea[55] | 201,750 | 120,000 | 0 | 321,750 | 57 | 35.7 |
Lebanon[96] | 59,100 | 232,635 | 20,000 | 311,735 | 77.6 | 14.7 |
Portugal[140] | 43,330 | 210,900 | 47,700 | 301,930 | 28.2 | 4 |
Japan[85] | 230,300 | 41,800 | 12,250 | 284,350 | 2.2 | 1.8 |
Switzerland[167] | 22,059 | 174,071 | 80,000 | 276,130 | 36.3 | 2.9 |
Armenia[7] | 46,684 | 210,000 | 4,748 | 261,432 | 88.1 | 15.7 |
Sri Lanka[161][note t] | 160,900 | 35,900 | 62,200 | 259,000 | 12.1 | 7.5 |
Sweden[166][note w] | 13,050 | 242,000 | 800 | 255,850 | 28.2 | 1.4 |
Saudi Arabia[148] | 233,500 | 0 | 15,500 | 249,000 | 8.7 | 8.1 |
Austria[10] | 27,300 | 195,000 | 9,400 | 231,700 | 28.2 | 3.3 |
Bangladesh[14] | 157,053 | 0 | 63,900 | 220,953 | 1.4 | 1 |
Sudan[161][note u] | 109,300 | 85,000 | 17,500 | 211,800 | 5.2 | 2.7 |
Romania[144] | 73,350 | 45,000 | 79,900 | 198,250 | 8.9 | 3.3 |
Cambodia[29] | 124,300 | 0 | 67,000 | 191,300 | 13.2 | 8.6 |
Paraguay[134] | 10,650 | 164,500 | 14,800 | 189,950 | 27.2 | 1.5 |
Ecuador[51] | 57,983 | 118,000 | 400 | 176,383 | 12.1 | 4 |
Jordan[86] | 100,500 | 65,000 | 10,000 | 175,500 | 28 | 16 |
Afghanistan[1] | 164,000 | 0 | 0 | 164,000 | 5.8 | 5.8 |
Nigeria[125] | 80,000 | 0 | 82,000 | 162,000 | 1.1 | 0.5 |
Nepal[120] | 95,753 | 0 | 62,000 | 157,753 | 5.5 | 3.4 |
Mongolia[114] | 10,000 | 137,000 | 7,200 | 154,200 | 50.7 | 3.3 |
Democratic Republic of the Congo[47] | 151,251 | 0 | 1,400 | 152,651 | 2.2 | 2.2 |
Chile[36] | 60,560 | 40,000 | 41,500 | 142,060 | 8.6 | 3.6 |
Ethiopia[57] | 138,000 | 0 | 0 | 138,000 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
Yemen[194] | 66,700 | 0 | 71,200 | 137,900 | 6 | 2.9 |
Poland[137][138][139] | 99,778 | 10,000 | 28,100 | 137,878 | 3.6 | 2.6 |
Laos[94] | 29,100 | 0 | 100,000 | 129,100 | 18.9 | 4.3 |
Canada[31] | 68,250 | 55,150 | 4,554 | 127,954 | 3.8 | 2[32] |
Venezuela[192] | 115,000 | 8,000 | 0 | 123,000 | 4.6 | 4.3 |
Angola[4] | 107,000 | 0 | 10,000 | 117,000 | 9.1 | 8.4 |
Libya[99][note j] | 76,000 | 40,000 | 0 | 116,000 | 18.3 | 12 |
Tanzania[171] | 27,000 | 80,000 | 1,400 | 108,400 | 2.6 | 0.7 |
Argentina[6] | 73,100 | 0 | 31,240 | 104,340 | 2.6 | 1.8 |
Guatemala[68] | 15,212 | 63,863 | 18,536 | 97,611 | 7.4 | 1.1 |
Serbia[150][151] | 40,000 | 50,171 | 0 | 90,171 | 12.2 | 5.4 |
South Africa[158] | 62,082 | 15,071 | 12,382 | 89,535 | 1.8 | 1.3 |
Uzbekistan[190] | 67,000 | 0 | 20,000 | 87,000 | 3.2 | 2.4 |
Hungary[74] | 29,450 | 44,000 | 12,000 | 85,450 | 8.6 | 3 |
Bolivia[21] | 46,100 | 0 | 37,100 | 83,200 | 8.5 | 4.7 |
Australia[8][9] | 57,500 | 25,000 | 0 | 82,500 | 3.9 | 2.7 |
Kazakhstan[87] | 49,000 | 0 | 31,500 | 80,500 | 5.2 | 3.2 |
Denmark[48] | 26,585 | 53,507 | 0 | 80,092 | 14.6 | 4.8 |
Honduras[73] | 12,000 | 60,000 | 8,000 | 80,000 | 10.2 | 1.5 |
Moldova[110] | 5,998 | 66,000 | 2,379 | 74,377 | 17.2 | 1.4 |
Norway[127] | 24,025 | 45,250 | 0 | 69,275 | 14.9 | 5.2 |
Netherlands[121] | 61,302 | 3,339 | 3,000 | 67,641 | 4 | 3.7 |
Dominican Republic[50] | 49,910 | 0 | 15,000 | 64,910 | 6.7 | 5.2 |
Cyprus[44] | 10,050 | 50,000 | 750 | 60,800 | 56 | 9.3 |
Palestine[131][note m] | 0 | 0 | 56,000 | 56,000 | 14 | 0 |
Burundi[28] | 20,000 | 0 | 31,050 | 51,050 | 5.4 | 2.1 |
United Arab Emirates[183] | 51,000 | 0 | 0 | 51,000 | 10.6 | 10.6 |
Zimbabwe[196] | 29,000 | 0 | 21,800 | 50,800 | 4.5 | 2.5 |
Tunisia[176] | 35,800 | 0 | 12,000 | 47,800 | 4.6 | 3.4 |
Oman[128] | 42,600 | 0 | 4,400 | 47,000 | 13.8 | 12.5 |
Uganda[181] | 45,000 | 0 | 1,800 | 46,800 | 1.4 | 1.4 |
Kuwait[92] | 15,500 | 23,700 | 7,100 | 46,300 | 17.2 | 5.8 |
Croatia[42] | 18,600 | 21,000 | 3,000 | 42,600 | 9.5 | 4.1 |
El Salvador[53] | 15,500 | 9,900 | 17,000 | 42,400 | 5.9 | 2.2 |
Estonia[56] | 4,750 | 25,000 | 10,766 | 40,516 | 31.2 | 3.7 |
Belgium[16] | 38,452 | 2,040 | 0 | 40,492 | 3.9 | 3.7 |
Rwanda[146] | 33,000 | 0 | 2,000 | 35,000 | 3.3 | 3.1 |
Chad[35] | 25,350 | 0 | 9,500 | 34,850 | 3.4 | 2.5 |
Georgia[63] | 21,150 | 0 | 11,700 | 32,850 | 7.5 | 4.8 |
Lithuania[100] | 8,850 | 6,700 | 14,600 | 30,150 | 8.5 | 2.5 |
Kenya[88] | 24,120 | 0 | 5,000 | 29,120 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
Czech Republic[45] | 17,932 | 0 | 10,988 | 28,920 | 2.8 | 1.8 |
Côte d'Ivoire[46] | 17,050 | 10,000 | 1,500 | 28,550 | 1.4 | 0.8 |
Uruguay[189] | 24,621 | 0 | 920 | 25,541 | 7.3 | 7 |
Ireland[81] | 10,460 | 14,875 | 0 | 25,335 | 5.5 | 2.3 |
Cameroon[30] | 14,100 | 0 | 9,000 | 23,100 | 1.2 | 0.7 |
Turkmenistan[180] | 22,000 | 0 | 0 | 22,000 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
Madagascar[102] | 13,500 | 0 | 8,100 | 21,600 | 1 | 0.7 |
Mauritania[107] | 15,870 | 0 | 5,000 | 20,870 | 6.7 | 5.1 |
Kyrgyzstan[93] | 10,900 | 0 | 9,500 | 20,400 | 3.8 | 2 |
Zambia[195] | 15,100 | 3,000 | 1,400 | 19,500 | 1.6 | 1.3 |
Bahrain[13] | 8,200 | 0 | 11,260 | 19,460 | 26.7 | 11.3 |
Guinea[69] | 12,300 | 0 | 7,000 | 19,300 | 1.9 | 1.2 |
Senegal[149] | 13,620 | 0 | 5,000 | 18,620 | 1.4 | 1 |
Latvia[95][note i] | 5,745 | 10,866 | 0 | 16,611 | 7.4 | 2.6 |
Slovakia[155] | 16,531 | 0 | 0 | 16,531 | 3 | 3 |
Djibouti[49] | 12,000 | 2,000 | 2,450 | 16,450 | 17.8 | 13 |
Tajikistan[170] | 8,800 | 0 | 7,500 | 16,300 | 2.2 | 1.2 |
Ghana[65] | 15,500 | 0 | 0 | 15,500 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
Slovenia[156] | 7,200 | 3,800 | 4,500 | 15,500 | 7.7 | 3.6 |
Namibia[119] | 9,200 | 0 | 6,000 | 15,200 | 7.2 | 4.4 |
Mali[105] | 7,350 | 0 | 7,800 | 15,150 | 1.1 | 0.5 |
Albania[2] | 14,295 | 0 | 500 | 14,795 | 4.1 | 3.9 |
Montenegro[115] | 3,127 | 0 | 10,100 | 13,227 | 19.7 | 4.7 |
Republic of Macedonia[142] | 8,000 | 4,850 | 0 | 12,850 | 6.2 | 3.9 |
Nicaragua[123] | 12,000 | 0 | 0 | 12,000 | 2 | 2 |
Panama[132] | 0 | 0 | 12,000 | 12,000 | 3.6 | 0 |
Republic of the Congo[143] | 10,000 | 0 | 2,000 | 12,000 | 3 | 2.5 |
New Zealand[122] | 9,702 | 2,249 | 0 | 11,951 | 2.8 | 2.3 |
Qatar[141] | 11,800 | 0 | 0 | 11,800 | 13.4 | 13.4 |
Burkina Faso[27] | 11,200 | 0 | 250 | 11,450 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
Mozambique[117] | 11,200 | 0 | 0 | 11,200 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina[22] | 11,099 | 0 | 0 | 11,099 | 2.4 | 2.4 |
Niger[124] | 5,300 | 0 | 5,400 | 10,700 | 0.7 | 0.3 |
Botswana[23] | 9,000 | 0 | 1,500 | 10,500 | 5.3 | 4.5 |
Sierra Leone[153] | 10,500 | 0 | 0 | 10,500 | 2 | 2 |
Brunei[25] | 7,000 | 700 | 2,250 | 9,950 | 25.6 | 18 |
Costa Rica[41] | 0 | 0 | 9,800 | 9,800 | 2.3 | 0 |
Fiji[58] | 3,500 | 6,000 | 0 | 9,500 | 10.1 | 3.7 |
Togo[174] | 8,550 | 0 | 750 | 9,300 | 1.5 | 1.4 |
Benin[18] | 4,750 | 0 | 2,500 | 7,250 | 0.8 | 0.5 |
Somalia[157] | 7,000 | 0 | 0 | 7,000 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
Malawi[103] | 5,300 | 0 | 1,500 | 6,800 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
Gabon[61] | 4,700 | 0 | 2,000 | 6,700 | 4.4 | 3.1 |
Guinea-Bissau[70] | 4,450 | 0 | 2,000 | 6,450 | 4.2 | 2.9 |
Bhutan[19][20][note a] | 5,445 | 0 | 555 | 6,000 | 8.5 | 7.7 |
Trinidad and Tobago[175] | 4,063 | 0 | 0 | 4,063 | 3.3 | 3.3 |
Jamaica[84] | 2,830 | 953 | 0 | 3,783 | 1.3 | 1 |
Swaziland[163][164][165][note v] | 3,000 | 0 | 644 | 3,644 | 3.1 | 2.5 |
Kosovo[89][90][91] | 2,800 | 800 | 0 | 3,600 | 2.1 | 1.6 |
Equatorial Guinea[54] | 1,320 | 0 | 2,000 | 3,320 | 5.2 | 2.1 |
Guyana[71] | 1,100 | 670 | 1,500 | 3,270 | 4.3 | 1.5 |
Central African Republic[34] | 2,150 | 0 | 1,000 | 3,150 | 0.7 | 0.5 |
Papua New Guinea[133] | 3,100 | 0 | 0 | 3,100 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
Liberia[98] | 2,400 | 0 | 0 | 2,400 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
Malta[106] | 1,954 | 167 | 0 | 2,121 | 5.2 | 4.8 |
Haiti[72] | 0 | 0 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 0.2 | 0 |
Lesotho[97] | 2,000 | 0 | 0 | 2,000 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
Mauritius[108] | 0 | 0 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 1.6 | 0 |
Suriname[162] | 1,840 | 0 | 0 | 1,840 | 3.8 | 3.8 |
Belize[17] | 1,050 | 700 | 0 | 1,750 | 5.7 | 3.4 |
Luxembourg[101] | 900 | 0 | 612 | 1,512 | 3.1 | 1.8 |
Timor Leste[173] | 1,332 | 0 | 0 | 1,332 | 1.3 | 1.3 |
Cape Verde[33] | 1,200 | 0 | 0 | 1,200 | 2.8 | 2.8 |
Barbados[12] | 610 | 430 | 0 | 1,040 | 3.7 | 2.1 |
Bahamas[12] | 860 | 0 | 0 | 860 | 2.8 | 2.8 |
Gambia[62] | 800 | 0 | 0 | 800 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
Seychelles[152] | 200 | 0 | 450 | 650 | 7.4 | 2.3 |
Saint Kitts and Nevis[147][note q] | 70 | 130 | 119 | 319 | 6.2 | 1.4 |
Vanuatu[191] | 0 | 0 | 300 | 300 | 1.3 | 0 |
Monaco[111][112][113] | 0 | 0 | 255 | 255 | 7.2 | 0 |
Antigua and Barbuda[5] | 170 | 75 | 0 | 245 | 2.9 | 2 |
Iceland[75] | 0 | 0 | 130 | 130 | 0.4 | 0 |
All Countries | 20,539,840 | 42,941,261 | 9,559,901 | 73,041,002 | ||
State | Active Military | Reserve Military | Paramilitary | Total | Total per 1000 capita | Active per 1000 capita |
A lot of teens own guns. Most young'uns in my family get their first firearm somewhere between the age of eight and twelve. Because I spent most of my time out of the country I only had three by the time I turned eighteen. My cousins tended to have a average of eight.
Thanks for posting the table, meadsjn! I’ll probably review it even more in the future.
Pitiful that Canada gutted their military to such a degree and depend on the US to defend them.
I guess that’s how they pay for their sorry health care system. ...Oh, wait... That’s the same thing the US Democrats and Obama are trying to do here in the US.
You neglected the most important:
f. terminally stupid
the infowarrior
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