Man with a gun in his carry-on bag slips by TSA and flies from Georgia to Tokyo

[Mister44]

@redesigned

It would be if they were actually checking all 80m and only 9k were unaccounted for, but that isn’t quite what is happening. that is 9000 out of a sample of 18000 total which is half of them, 50%, which is not quite such a low rate. must be referencing something else, maybe used in a crime but unrecovered?

Er - what? No, 18,000 isn’t a sample size. 18,000 is the total stolen/lost gathered by the ATF.

I was comparing it to the number of owners, which is ~80million (granted an owner more than likely got more than one gun stolen, and possibly more than one lost, so the 9,113 lost isn’t the necessarily the number of people).

I guess if you wanted to compare sample size, the 18,394 is the number reported lost or stolen is out of the estimated 390 million in the US.