text: I would like to know how many guns are manufactured or imported to the US every year and also how many are destroyed or otherwise take out of circulation?
  
  It seems quite obvious that as more and more guns exist, more and more of them will end up in the hands of those who shouldn't have them.
  
  Gun laws in the US are far overdue for updating. The original writers of the constitution could not contemplate automatic weapons and other advancements of these killing instruments.
  
  Selling or buying of automatic weapons should be banned and taxes to buy other guns should be increased dramatically to fund the destruction of weapons used in criminal offenses and found in possession of people who are not licensed to own it.
  
  Doing nothing is not a option.