Editorial: A tax on California gun sales? It's worth considering
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Dec 06, 2018
3 minutes
The social costs of gun ownership in the U.S. have reached staggering levels, though given the lack of reliable data collection the public is left to sift through conflicting estimates of the numbers of firearms Americans actually own.
One survey-based estimate places the number at 265 million guns and another suggests 393 million guns; the larger number, if accurate, would account for nearly half of the civilian-owned guns in the world. According to a Johns
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