Americans own nearly half the privately owned guns worldwide

He once found a Mauser in the branches of a tall tree while clearing property.
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Mausers do grow on trees. :p If I prune the tree, will it grow a C-96 Mauser?

I bet if we look at population size and the # of guns, places like Warziristan would beat us. There's that street that is gunmaker's lane with men and boys making things with simple hand tools. But for world tension, I'd love to visit it and sit there and watch.
 
I don't have any confidence in numbers of anything around the world. How can they have a clue as to the number of AK's in Africa, the Middle East and even parts of Europe? It's not as if folks will step forward and say "Count my gun".
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+1 millions of guns worldwide get produced without registration/recorded records.

All the truck loads of AKs being sent to "conflict" areas from ???? secret supporters
 
I rather imagine that our affluence has a lot to do with it, as well. In much of the world, the price of a handgun is several month's wages.
 
I rather imagine that our affluence has a lot to do with it, as well. In much of the world, the price of a handgun is several month's wages.
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I dont doubt that at all. Brazil for example has several manufacturers yet relatively few of their civilians own pistols legally. Partially because of the laws and difficulty/cost of getting a permit to buy one in the first place, but also because of the base cost plus taxes of buying it.
The gun itself is just a 3rd of the cost.. then there is insane ammo costs :rolleyes:

None of my wifes family and friends (from Sao Paulo) had ever touched a firearm until they came here... and all who have visited so far really liked shooting once they got past the fear of just having it in their hand.
My 90lb mother-in-law shot my G21 with a smile, and my brother-in-law tried to wear out my G27.
 
We still have the best gun laws in the world, and along with our previous affluence and history of using guns as tools the U.S. is still the place to be for gun ownership.
 
We still have the best gun laws in the world,
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Does that imply that our guns laws are good?

I'd say that we have the least restrictive - at least that I know of - but since gun laws are bad we can't have the best; only the least bad.
 
Your Constitution guarantees its citizens the right to keep and bear arms. This is possibly unique and a wonderful thing. Other nations' legislations essentially treat firearms ownership as a privilege and not a right and some may well prohibit it outright. Like all rights, and especially those protected by law, constant vigilance is required to ensure that it continues. Never take it for granted. As a non American, I sometimes find it somewhat perplexing at best, and disturbing at worst, to encounter an American citizen who is ambivalent about firearms ownership and the second Amendment, or worse, hostile to the idea of firearms ownership and safe stewardship of firearms. The nation's Founding Fathers well knew what they were doing, but of course presupposed that the foundation of the American Republic's Democratic experiment - of which the right to keep and bear arms are fundamental aspects - is, and was, based on a recognition and active awareness that such rights carried responsibilities that should never be taken for granted. Freedom is never freely achieved or preserved.

Seen in this light,the degree of firearms ownership in the United States is no accident and was perhaps, never meant to be an accident. It is part and parcel of the wider framework of the freedoms which its citizens enjoy - or should enjoy and a testament to the fact that an upright, law abiding people do not, and have never needed, large and over arching government because they have the legal and moral fibre, and through their ownership of firearms, the means, to preserve their freedom.
 
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^ Thats shockingly well said, made even more interesting by the non-American perspective.

We currenly have a gigantic crop of citizens who really dont appreciate or respect their birthrights, so-to-speak.
My gut tells me our nation has reached its apex and we're starting to fizzle out like all other great civilizations before us. In our case it will be our own fault because we have not maintained control of our government, mostly because we're not cohesive any longer.
The United part is becoming questionable.
 
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