According to the fish and wildlife numbers from 2011, there were just under 15 million registered hunting permits issued in the US. Now they don't specifically state the number breakdown of Bow hunting vs. firearms,vs turkey,fish, duck, deer, etc, but that number seems realistic. If there were 40 million, I would suspect we would not have a deer overpopulation issue.
Also one should take into account that many states are probably not real good for hunting in general due to lack of land or geological issues that do not promote a large game population. So one would make the assumption that certain states would be more of a defendable stronghold vs states with rediculous gun control policies like NJ and so on and that concentrated amounts of gun owners would populate some states more than others.
But not also to be discounted is how many poachers are there? or people that do not subdue themselves to political policies, such as large private land owners that do their own processing, and ethnic communities like the Amish.
Regardless, there are way more people that own weapons and hunt than people know of or register. What is more concerning is that the US DEPT of homeland security, ordered 1.6 Billion rounds of ammo for the Homeland defense admin. Which means 5 rounds for every man women and child in the US..Why does the Social security admin, need hollow point rounds,when any rounds of that nature are considered illegal under NATO war rules?
Even more concerning than that is the ammunition shortage currently scheduled to continue for another 9 months, even for private reloaders, that can not get supplies to even reload.
15-40 million guns are useless without loads.
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Originally Posted by fabiodriven
