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September 7, 2009, 05:58 PM | #1 |
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Most automatic weapons per capita
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I was wondering which country or the top few countries will have most automatic weapons per capita civilians? Also in gross which country will have most automatic weapon in civilian hands? Thanks |
September 7, 2009, 06:09 PM | #2 |
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Fully auto, semiauto, or both?
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September 8, 2009, 05:27 AM | #3 |
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The Swiss or Israelis. Possibly (per capita) Vatican City or Monaco, simply because they are such small countries. Since so many countries do not have registration or publish numbers, it is hard to tell.
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From what I understand, everyone male over 20 years old is issued a G36 in Switzerland that they keep at home until they're done with their compulsory military service.
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It's probably Switzerland, Vatican City, (if the Swiss gaurd use full-autos) Monoco.
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I concur on the compulsory Military Service in Switzerland.
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I meant FULLY automatic.
I thought Pakistan or the US would be up there but Swiss surprised me. |
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Definately Swiss. Mandatory service age is 18-55 and you all have a service rifle (that's a Stgw-90 Select Fire Service Weapon) and 50 rounds of ammo handy in your home for deplyment. So about 85% of the males in the age range have a Stgw-90 at home. A good chunk of them also buy thier rifle when they leave the service.
So you are looking at about 1 million service rifles, or one for every five Swiss Citizens.
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September 14, 2009, 07:14 PM | #12 |
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who cares?
Must be a report due soon... |
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There are roughly a quarter million legally-transferable machine guns in the US, according to the BATFEIEIO's spotty records.
Most knowledgeable observers reckon that there are at least that many more formerly-legal ones in attics and barns and under floorboards that never made it onto the registry between '34 and '86. |
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Tamara:
Here in PK just last year 30,000 licenses were issued for full autos. On each AK license people usually keep 4 by stamping the same number and keeping them at different places. Now that is just for last year. We have been getting licenses for such weapons since 1985, except for small intervals in between where they were banned etc. Nevertheless, if I would imagine that 5000 were issued per year (conservative estimate) we will have 24*5000 = 120000+30000= 150,000 licenses floating our there, but I think my conservative estimate is far below then actual. That said, we take that if 50% of these are AK the Ak number is75000. Furthermore if take (a very conservative est) that 25% Ak holders have at least 2 on same license we add 37500 to the total 150,000 = 187500 auto weapons. Well when we talk about the black market or illegal weapons, the number is just too hard to figure out. In 'one' of the biggest market Derra Adam Khail there are 3000 sellers. All of them must have AKs local or foriegn. Take that in account and the other such markets around the country. While doing that, dont forget that MOST people who have AKs dont have license for them. We are a population of 180 million! Can someone take a stab at doing a guestimatic math to put a number up? |
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interesting thread. Throw out the per capita, who do you think has the most?
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you means the civilians?
I know my country would be ranked pretty high |
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October 5, 2009, 03:26 AM | #18 |
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gyvl, i am sure I understand
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My guess would be Israel - all men and women must serve in the military and they generally carry M16's when on active duty. Most households, from what I've been told, also have an automatic weapon in them. This is what I've been told, so accuracy could be questionable.
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Pre-invasion Iraq had about one AK per household. Saddam was handing them out like door prizes.
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250K full auto in the USA---Wow, that's a staggering figure, that makes it what .0001% of the population...
Switzerland is around 47.0% and Israel is around 42.0% but then again, both countries combined wouldn't equal the population of Los Angeles and surrounding environs...Both countries have mandatory military service and a complete reserve (militia) corp so there is an advantage to their figures... Last I read Afghanistan had around 23% of adult males armed with automatic weapons but they didn't specify full, select or semi...But that was awhile ago... Do you know which countries have the least amount of weapons, primarily firearms, crimes? Least amount of armed robberies? Least amount of bank robberies?
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According to news report that I read U.S has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world.
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The "Brady Bunch" would have conniptions if that were the case...
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Well, actually, there are probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 90-120 million guns in the USA. In other words, one gun for every three people.
Mind you, that's the official figure. "Unofficial" estimates put it much closer to 300 million or more - one gun for just about everyone. |
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