Firearm Microstamping: A "Bullet with a Name On It"
David Muradyan · Scholarly Commons (University of the Pacific) · 2008
idUSL2834893820070828 (on file with the McGeorge Law Review) ("U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.");U.S. Conference of Mayors, Fact Sheet: Gun Violence in America (Sept.9, 1999), http://www.usmayors.org/uscm/gun-safety/gunfacts.htm (on file with the McGeorge Law Review) (noting that there may be close to 239 million guns in the United States, including about eighty-six million handguns).