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[Kensal Rise]

A demand of 17 billion rounds per year?

"That’s about 5 billion rounds a year more than we were producing during the height of the Second World War," according to the author of this piece.

No one can tell me a civilian market consumes that much ammo per annum. This writer has been hosed.

[J.B. Books]

The number does sound out there but is it?

If fifty million people (14% of the population) buy or fire 1000 rounds a year (remember that includes 22 rimfire) that would be 50 billion rounds of ammo per year. The number may not be as outrageous as it sounds.