Americans make up 4.4 percent of the world's population but own roughly 42 percent of
civilian firearms in circulation.
The number of
civilian firearms in the United States rose 28 percent, from 242 million to 310 million, from 1996 to 2009, according to a 2012 Congressional Research Service report.
Not exact matches
Estimated
in 2007, the number of
civilian - owned
firearms in the US was 88.8 guns per 100 people, meaning there was almost one privately owned gun per American and more than one per American adult.
Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell
in many states, brand new «machine guns» — defined by law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one shot per trigger pull — have not been available for sale or purchase for
civilian use
in the United States since the
Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.
In a three - page paper issued Friday, the firm said «we have reached out to the major publicly traded civilian firearms manufacturers and retailers to engage in a discussion of their business practices.&raqu
In a three - page paper issued Friday, the firm said «we have reached out to the major publicly traded
civilian firearms manufacturers and retailers to engage
in a discussion of their business practices.&raqu
in a discussion of their business practices.»
April 10 Bank of America Corp plans to stop lending to companies that make military - style
firearms for
civilians, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, making it the second major U.S. lender to address gun sales after the Florida high school shooting that left 17 dead
in February.
The iShares MSCI USA Small - Cap ESG Optimized ETF (ESML) is part of iShares» larger ESG ETF family, which,
in the wake of the school massacre
in Parkland, Florida, has altered its methodology to entirely exclude makers of
civilian firearms or any retailer that earns more than $ 20 million or 5 % of their total revenue from the sale of
civilian firearms.
Between l963 and l973, while the war
in Vietnam was taking 46,212 lives,
firearms in America killed 84,644
civilians.
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If you're interested solely
in investment returns for funds minus guns, the Sustainalytics research found that total returns of the five companies
in the FTSE Global All Cap index that produce or sell assault weapons to
civilian customers — including Sturm Ruger, American Outdoor, Vista Outdoor and Dick's Sporting Goods — delivered three - year returns that trailed the market by 15 to 17 percentage points, showing that «the financial performance of
firearms companies is far from bulletproof.
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US
civilians own 270 million to 310 million
firearms, resulting
in around 35 % to 42 % of US households owning at least one gun [1][2], making them the country which has the highest rate of
civilian guns and they were not cutting it close:
in second place was Yemen (with 55 guns per 100
civilians, where the US have approximately 90 for every 100
civilians)[3].
The parallels between the Second Amendment and these state declarations, and the Second Amendment's omission of any statement of purpose related to the right to use
firearms for hunting or personal self - defense, is especially striking
in light of the fact that the Declarations of Rights of Pennsylvania and Vermont did expressly protect such
civilian uses at the time.
One report considers
civilians who did not bring or use
firearms to be unarmed innocents, the other report considers
civilians who confiscated weapons from their armed attackers and did not use them
in reprisal to have been «using
firearms».
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