claim: "there are more guns than there are people in the united states."
author: eleanor holmes norton
evidence_1: oct 5, 2015 ... america only recently reached a point when we had more guns than people.
evidence_2: jul 27, 2016 ... we are the only country in which guns outnumber people — a fact that became  true in 2009. and we keep manufacturing more and more guns. between 2010  and 2013 alone, the number of guns produced in the united states doubled.  guns are ubiquitous in the united states in a way that is unique. this is ...
evidence_3: dec 4, 2015 ... u.s. regions differ in their concentrations of gun ownership. here's what you ... in  every case, the figure is now greater than the number of people in the united  states. (the gray guns in the ... there's no question, though, that the past few  years have seen a surge in the number of guns sold. as we noted ...
evidence_4: this is a list of countries by estimated guns per capita the small arms survey  2007 provides an estimate of the total number of known civilian-owned guns in a  country per 100 people. these numbers do not clarify which percentage of the  population owns those guns. the ownership rate reported is the average  estimate ...
evidence_5: jan 5, 2016 ... there's the two things that drive our business." according to the congressional  research service, there are roughly twice as many guns per capita in the united  states as there were in 1968: more than 300 million guns in all. gun sales have  increased in recent years. according to the bureau of alcohol, ...