USAF80 wrote:
“To counter the billion rounds us civilians are buying.”
Correction, To counter the billion rounds us civilians are buying to add to the already one hundred billion rounds had by us civilized citizens.
Now, in case you think that is an exaggeration, do the math...there are 300 million people in this country. That one hundred billion rounds is only 333 rounds per person, and if one third of ‘we the people’ are armed, that is an army of one hundred million with only 1,000 rounds each. So let’s say that only fifty million of we the people are armed, that is only 2,000 rounds each...before we buy more.
We the people use that for plinking, practice and hunting every year...if we are ‘slackers’.
I think the un-official figures are 20 million gun owners. One ad I saw in a magazine said there are 5 million rilfes out in circulation.