Number of Lee-Enfields in Canada?

Just looking around on my work floor of 50 people there are 3 who currently own a .303 caliber rifle, 4 who's husbands have one (or more) and 2 more who owned one prior to resgistry. Thats a 6% ratio in a white collar enviroment. I could imagine that there are more than 24 000 around in canada.
 
Wow! I grew up in Malaysia, and never ever saw a Lee Enfield in my life!:eek:

rangebob said:
There were 16 million produced in the world.
So, here's some math based on population, and assuming 80% of them have been destroyed since a bunch of them were manufactured a century ago.

Code: 
COUNTRY         POPULATION     16mil  %   80% DESTROYED
Australia       21,431,800      168,898       33,780
Canada          33,311,400      262,518       52,504
France          62,277,432      490,792       98,158
India        1,139,964,932    8,983,766    1,796,753
Italy           59,832,179      471,522       94,304
Iraq            30,711,152      242,027       48,405
Ireland          4,425,675       34,878        6,976
Malaysia        27,014,337      212,893       42,579
Nepal           28,809,526      227,040       45,408
New Zealand      4,268,900       33,642        6,728
Ottoman Empire  35,000,000      275,826       55,165
Pakistan       166,111,487    1,309,081      261,816
South Africa    48,687,000      383,690       76,738
United Kingdom  61,414,062      483,988       96,798
United States  307,006,550    2,419,439      483,888
Total        2,030,266,432   16,000,000

I'd bet there are around 24000 registered in Canada.
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With 80% destroyed..???

I think they're getting quite rare,so in the spirt of the post I'll offer up my "near mint" No 1 MK 111 Lithgow for ........One Million Dollars!!!:pirate:
EMT is King.
 
OEM said:
Wow! I grew up in Malaysia, and never ever saw a Lee Enfield in my life!:eek:
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You clearly didn't get out much, every museum I saw had a least several Lee-Enfields and in one display at Pt Dickson Museum they had 25 No.5 lined up in a barrack room display.
 
Given the number sold after WW2 I'd say far fewer than 80% were destroyed. The relative ease of finding virtually any maker's No1 MkIII or No4 or 5 points to a very very large number surviving (compared to say Arisaka's or even WW2 Mausers). I'd bet over a million (with or without paper)
 
Just to be clear, I have retracted my "24000 registered in Canada" and "80% destroyed" statements.
I'm now betting on over 250,000 registered enfields.
 
Colin said:
You clearly didn't get out much, every museum I saw had a least several Lee-Enfields and in one display at Pt Dickson Museum they had 25 No.5 lined up in a barrack room display.
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It was probably more like I was not really interested in guns at all when I was growing up. I was scout (the Pengakap kind, that is) and accordingly, spent most of my spare time in the jungle. Museums were not my thing and honestly, when you grow up in a country where the penalty for owning a gun of any sort is death by hanging, well, a gun of any sort usually holds no interest for you.

I had a friend in my boyhood, who, in the aftermath of a bank robbery shootout, picked up a live shell. Thinking it was cool, he drilled a hole through the bullet and made a cool necklace out of it. During a routine stop, he got his ass kicked into a black maria, and spent a week in the police station being "questioned". He came out of it a changed person. Experiences such as these make one very disinterested in guns. Its very likely I saw an LE in the Kuala Lumpur Museum...but probably didn't even see it. Fear does that to you.
 
I would bet more than 1000000

I know for a fact that LE were sold out of the back of 53' trailers for $3.00 each no registry no questions asked. And nobody knows exactly how many were sold. No matter what lying liberal politicians will say.
 
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