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Originally Posted by Schone23666
BTW, I recall there was a survey done by the U.N. not long ago that attempted to determine what country were the most heavily armed, or had the most weapons per capita. While I would take it with a grain of salt, after crunching the data, they claimed the most heavily armed nation in the world is in fact the United States.
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I don't have the book in front of me (had to return it to the library) but, IIRC, Chivers (in
The Gun) claimed that Albania was thought to have had the most weapons per-capita prior to the breakup of the USSR. It was something ridiculous like an AK for every 7 citizens or 7 AKs for every adult citizen. They just went hog wild cranking out and storing the things- something to do with paranoia after leaving the WARPACT. After the fall of the USSR, a lot of Albanias AKs found their way to the Balkans, the 'Stans and elsewhere.