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Gun Industry Report: Almost 18 Million AR-15, AK Type Rifles In Circulation
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The firearms industry trade association on Wednesday released a report on gun numbers in the U.S. and black rifles are in.
The report, compiled by the National Shooting Sports Foundation from data provided by federal regulators, estimated 422 million firearms of all types were produced or imported for the consumer market between 1986 and last year. This included more than 7 million guns in both 2017 and 2018 alone. Another big take away: an estimated 17,740,000 Modern Sporting Rifles are in private hands today.
The MSR term is used for popular semi-auto rifles such as the AR-15 and others. |
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jac
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We're talking $20 billion to buy them all up.
Seems to me that the federal government has enough debt without the nonsensical banning and paying for these rifles. |
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