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Originally Posted by Buehler445
Nope. Can't wrap my head around numbers that big. 
I can't remember if it was before or after the summer riots, but I heard at some point that there were 9 million new gun owners over the last year. As in people that didn't own a gun that now do. Not guns sold.
That's a LOT. If there are 350 million people in the country, that's 2.5% of the entire population that entered the market. **** that's a lot. So if they are responsible gun owners and training with those firearms, wow. That's a lot of hot lead. Just round numbers, say half of those 9 million stick them in the safe, the other half run 100 rounds a year through them. That's 450 million bullets that weren't even in the firearms market in 2019. And you'd think those numbers are pretty conservative. You know there are some fools that like it and dump 1000 rounds a year. |
1000 rounds a year. Those are rookie numbers. I could easily shoot that on a day with nice weather.
On another note. Because of ammo prices I have become really into .22s. I think I own more 22 guns than any other caliber.