The Small Arms Survey, an independent global research project based in Geneva, Switzerland, found that there were more than 1 billion firearms in the world, of which civilians owned 85 percent, while the rest were held by militaries or law enforcement agencies.
The number of guns owned by civilians globally rose to 857 million in 2017 from 650 million in 2006, the survey said. There were 120 guns for every 100 U.S. residents in 2017, it found, followed by Yemen with nearly 53 firearms per 100 people.
“The biggest force pushing up gun ownership around the world is civilian ownership in the United States. Ordinary American people buy approximately 14 million new and imported guns every year,” survey author Aaron Karp told reporters.
That's a 7 billion dollar business at 500 bucks a gun.That's over 38000 guns per day,every day of the year.No wonder the government can't keep up with background checks.It's not that they hate guns,it's the cost to the government they don't like trying to keep up with everything.I bet it costs a couple billion a year just to do the checks that they do.This is exactly why people "Fall thru the cracks" while being scrutinized for gun ownership.