Americans Own World’s Largest Arsenal of Firearms: Survey
There are more than one billion firearms in the world, according to the Small Arms Survey, a Geneva-based research group. US civilians own 120.5 firearms per 100 residents—the highest global ratio—a figure the Survey attributes to both national ‘gun culture’ and the expiration of federal assault weapons ban in 2004.
Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeReport.org )