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I see your point, but I think the multiple is more like millions.
I cannot recollect a single case where the bad guys took a lawful owner's gun and used it to commit a crime. It is rare, eh? If such a thing happened as a regular thing, I am certain that the lefty media would have informed me. And reinformed me. And re-reinformed me. And re-re-reinformed me....
Meet Jeanne Assam, a woman who saved a church full of people in 2007. She was on the security team and shot a man who walked in heavily armed, planning to kill as many people that day as he could.
Police vehicles are often burgled for their guns.
FEDGOV is missing over 1000 of their guns,some machine guns,as of 2003.