Nobody knows how many guns there are in America .. so who can guess at the whole planet?
The best estimate for firearms in USA is somewhere between 200 to 390 MILLION .. but new sales last year 2020 alone were 39,695,315 - that's nearly 40 Million more in one year.
Please also note that U S figures do not include muzzle-loading non-cartridge guns as being firearms.
According to the Small Arms Survey there are more than one billion firearms in the world and the majority are owned by ordinary people. It estimates that 85% are in civilian hands, 13% are in military arsenals and 2% are owned by law enforcement agencies.
My estimate would be that of all the civilian gun shots fired in the world 98% are fired at inanimate objects such as paper targets, steel plates, empty cans & pumpkins - with millions of clay discs added plus some wild harvesting & pest control.
- Those arms issued to law enforcement will even be unlikely used to stop a criminal person's activity by killing them.
If civilian gun ownership were an issue as imagined by the GUN BANNERS the figures would show it leading the unnatural death rate instead of Poisoning, Opioid Misuse, - Traffic Deaths, - Accidental falls - and Suicide.
However NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern would do well to note that every year since the end of World War Two at least one MILLION lives have been taken by Government Military actions throughout our beautiful planet .. EVERY YEAR.
It is GOVERNMENT owned small-arms and larger ordnance that are the issue that the fearful should be opposing rather than civilian owned sporting arms.
The banners may well need to fear the carrying of high capacity weapons by our poorly trained and UNLICENSED police employees.
Marty K.
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