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That sure is a lot of guns you got there. lolol (i.imgur.com)
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[–] JK_Flip_Flop@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

(Also not American) The numbers in this tweet, if correct, would imply that ~80% of Americans don't own a firearm. If memory serves there's a slightly over 1:1 ratio between registered firearms and American citizens so that would suggest an average of 5 guns per owner.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Only HI requires firearms to be registered in the USA.

And the last research on it, it's around 1/3 of the population.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/06/22/the-demographics-of-gun-ownership/

That's from 2017, before COVID and trump really amping shit to the max. That 33% thinking about getting a firearm, many of them have. I'd say we're probably around %45 at this point. Many on the left have armed themselves since trump and COVID.

[–] Pogogunner@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_4473

A Firearms Transaction Record, or ATF Form 4473, is a seven-page form prescribed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) required to be completed when a person proposes to purchase a firearm from a Federal Firearms License (FFL) holder, such as a gun dealer.[1]

Form 4473 contains the purchaser’s name, address, date of birth, government-issued photo ID, National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) background check transaction number, and a short affidavit stating that the purchaser is eligible to purchase firearms under federal law.

The firearm dealer is required to record some information from the Form 4473 into a "bound-book", called an "Acquisition and Disposition Log”.[6] The dealer must keep the Form 4473 on file for the lifetime of the FFL, and is required to surrender the log book to the ATF upon retirement from the firearms business.

The ATF is allowed to inspect, as well as request a copy of, the Form 4473 from the dealer during the course of a criminal investigation. In addition, the sale of two or more handguns to a person in a five-day period must be reported to the ATF on Form 3310.4.

ATF form 4473 is de-facto registration of every legally owned gun in the United States of America

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

While I agree that, that form is supposed to be destroyed after running it. It's not a registery...even if the ATF is trying to use it like one.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

I really like the guitar analogy. Most people don't own a guitar, most people who do own a guitar only own one, and most people who own more than one own a lot of guitars.