[WillPostForFood]

0.03% is ten times less than 0.3%, so I agree it is not even close. The money to manufacturers from smuggling is a rounding error. The numbers are from anti-gun activists, so they are incentivized to over state, not understate the smuggling.

The fact that supposedly every American owns 4 or 5 guns should hint at how bad the smuggling problem is

I think it shows how disconnected non-gun owners are from people who own guns. None of my liberal gun owning friends in California have fewer than 4-5 guns. My conservative gun owning friends in Texas have 20-30 guns. I've never met a gun owner that had 1-2.

[kube-system]

There are three types of people:

1. people who don't have a gun

2. "gun owners"... who have them as a hobby and have a bunch of guns

3. people who just happen to have a gun at home. you don't hear about these people because they aren't "into" guns and don't talk about them.

[WillPostForFood]

I know people who don't like guns don't want to hear it, but guns are tools. You wouldn't ask a carpenter if the only tool he needed was one saw. You don't just need a saw, you need a hammer, a screwdriver, a drill. And you don't just need one saw, you need a few specialized saws, and many screwdrivers. Maybe one hammer is enough.

[bdangubic]

I am #3 and there are a lot of us (every close friend I have is #3). we don't talk about them publicly so every non-close friend I have would lose a house betting against me owning a gun (I am as non-conservative politically as it gets)