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minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThink of like this, your average pistol weighs just over a pound (.45kg) and your average rifle around 8 pounds (3.62kg) So somewhere between 400 million and 3.2 billion pounds of metal, wood, and plastic. Between 180 million and 1.448 billion kg. Low number is assuming all pistols, high number is assuming all rifles, so the real number is going to be between the two. As a point of comparison, the US generates 268 million tons of garbage every year: https://www.dumpsters.com/blog/us-trash-production You’re talking many times that JUST for guns.
minus-squareWoht24@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoRun some numbers on the amount of weight the US military moves annually.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThe US Military is legally prevented from operating inside the United States: https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/posse-comitatus-revisited-use-military-civil-law-enforcement
minus-squareWoht24@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoIf you’re trolling - hilarious. If you’re not - fuck bro, you need to get out a bit. Literally not the point whatsoever, not even relevant.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoTelling the truth with cited sources is trolling now?
Think of like this, your average pistol weighs just over a pound (.45kg) and your average rifle around 8 pounds (3.62kg)
So somewhere between 400 million and 3.2 billion pounds of metal, wood, and plastic. Between 180 million and 1.448 billion kg.
Low number is assuming all pistols, high number is assuming all rifles, so the real number is going to be between the two.
As a point of comparison, the US generates 268 million tons of garbage every year:
https://www.dumpsters.com/blog/us-trash-production
You’re talking many times that JUST for guns.
Run some numbers on the amount of weight the US military moves annually.
The US Military is legally prevented from operating inside the United States:
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/posse-comitatus-revisited-use-military-civil-law-enforcement
If you’re trolling - hilarious.
If you’re not - fuck bro, you need to get out a bit. Literally not the point whatsoever, not even relevant.
Telling the truth with cited sources is trolling now?
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