USA Buys Enough Guns in 3 Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Army
Law abiding US citizens bought on average 3,177,256 guns every 3 months in 2008
(AmmoLand.com) In just 3 months Americans bought enough guns to outfit the entire Chinese and Indian armies combined.
- attributed to Isoroku Yamamoto, Fleet Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II
You also bought 1,529,635,000 rounds of ammunition in just the month of December 2008. Yeah, that is right, that is Billion with a "B". This number takes no accounting of reloading or reloaded ammunition.
This is an evaluation of overall firearms and ammunition purchases based on low-end numbers per Federal NIC instacheck database 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.
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