claim: "there are more guns in this country than there are people."
author: kevin nicholson
evidence_1: jun 19, 2018 ... there are more than 393 million civilian-owned firearms in the united ... ( individuals in this case, not households) own half the nation's firearms.
evidence_2: oct 5, 2015 ... there are now more guns than people in the united states ... these numbers are  blind to firearms that enter and exit the country illegally, and ...
evidence_3: nov 12, 2018 ... (we kill ourselves even more than we kill each other: worldwide, the us ..... for  their gun-safety laws; those states also claim the nation's highest per ... to restrict  sales to people with mental illnesses or a history of violence, ...
evidence_4: jul 27, 2016 ... we are the only country in which guns outnumber people — a fact that came true  in 2009. yet, we keep manufacturing more and more guns.
evidence_5: this is a list of countries by estimated number of privately-owned guns per 100  persons. the small arms survey 2017 provides estimates of the total number of  civilian-owned guns in a country. it then calculates the number per 100 persons.  ... additional data and alternative rates should be placed there. this way the main  ...