Santa Claus outraged by 'ho ho ho' ban

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By: Janet Fyfe-Yeomans and Amanda Grant
November 15, 2007 07:00am

HE is an unlikely revolutionary but this Christmas, Santa is a rebel with a claus. He is having the last laugh on political correctness - and it's a great big fat belly laugh. Santas across Sydney are rebelling against attempts to ban their traditional greeting of "ho, ho, ho" in favour of "ha, ha, ha". Recruitment firm Westaff - which supplies hundreds of Santas across the country - has told its trainees that the "ho ho ho" phrase could frighten children and could even be derogatory to women. Two Santa hopefuls reportedly quit the course because of the hullabaloo of the ho, ho, ho.

One would-be Santa has told The Daily Telegraph he was taught not to use "ho, ho, ho" because it was too close to the American slang for prostitute. He also quit.
"Gimme a break," Julie Gale, who runs the campaign against sexualising children called Kids Free 2B Kids, said.
"We are talking about little kids who do not understand that "ho, ho, ho" has any other connotation and nor should they.
"Leave Santa alone."
Australian Childhood Foundation chief executive officer Dr Joe Tucci said it was the latest example of political correctness gone mad.
"There is no stronger tradition for children than Santa's ho, ho, ho," Dr Tucci said.
Yesterday department stores David Jones and Myers and the Westfield shopping centre chain moved to reassure children, and their parents, that Santa and his customary greeting was part of Christmas's present as well as Christmas's past.
A David Jones spokeswoman said they had discussed the situation with Westaff and their Santas would not besilenced.
"Senior management have assured us that Santas provided to David Jones have not been censored in any way," the spokeswoman said.

At Myer, where Westaff also train the fat men in red suit, Santa could not stop laughing about the suggestion.
"Myer has not directed our Santas to refrain from using 'ho, ho, ho' and believe the expression is an important Christmas tradition," a spokesman for Myer said.

Westfield's Santas are recruited and trained by RegProm Marketing and they will be "ho, ho, ho-ing" a Westfield spokeswoman said.
"Westfield Santas are known for their friendly and welcoming nature and know how to deliver a real festive 'ho, ho, ho'."
Sydney mother Maybel Lopez said she wanted her daughter Andria, 5, to grow up hearing Santa's "ho, ho, ho" just like she had and she did not realise it had other connotations.
"It's what Santa has been saying his whole life - my whole life. It is just a normal thing really for him to say 'ho, ho, ho'," Ms Lopez said.
Westaff's national Santa co-ordinator Sari Hegarty wrote to stores explaining the company's position.
"Westaff has been a provider of quality caring Santas for over 40 years," Ms Hegarty wrote in an email.
"Part of our advice to our Santas is that they should be mindful of children having their first Santa experience.
"We ask our Santas to try techniques such as lowering their tone of voice and using 'ha, ha, ha' to encourage the children to come forward and meet Santa. We wish you and your family a very merry Christmas."
Westaff national operations manager Greg Jansz said it was "misleading" to say the company had banned Santa's traditional greeting and it was being left up to the discretion of Santa himself.

Company of Heroes Reference Manual

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A new feature has been added to the KMA site, the COH Reference Manual. Detailed information on all Medals, Units, Structures, Vehicles, and Maps, for the original COH game. Check it out!

What is Teamspeak and how do I connect?

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TeamSpeak is a quality, scalable application which enables people to speak with one another over the Internet. TeamSpeak consists of both client and server software. The server acts as a host to multiple client connections, capable of handling literally thousands of simultaneous users. This results in an Internet based teleconferencing solution that works in a variety of applications such as team mates speaking with one another while playing their favorite online game, small businesses cutting costs on long distance charges, or for personal communication with friends and family.....(continued)

Axis and Allies March Madness 2v2 Tournament

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Axis & Allies RTS 2v2 Tournament

Tourney Day March 29th, 2008

^{6:00 PM EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME}

Well it's official, an Axis and Allies 2v2 Tournament! Hard to believe it's been two and a half years since we had the "Good, Bad, and the Ugly" 1v1 Tournament, and it was so fun we just had to do it again...

Here's the basics of what we have in store, in our quest to find the best 2v2 team in the world.

16 Team Single-Elimination^[*]
Assigned Countries/Maps
With 1 Bomb per Team

Tournament Completed in One Day
Detailed Rules, Settings, and Info 2v2.kma-clan.com

New member in BF2, Vacuuous.

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Vacuuous, Godson's pappy has been added to the BF2 roster. He will be a welcome addition to our growing community of players. So all players welcome our newest member. [click here]

welcome to KMA

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Id like to welcome 2 newmembers to KMA they hae joined the COH division and are experienced players and Both Brits :)

A warm welcome from us all

TeamSpeak Mentioned in South Park Episode

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From the www.goteamspeak.com website

Episode 8 of South Park, Season 10, titled 'Make Love, Not Warcraft' was aired October 4th on Comedy Central. This Episode featured the South Park boys dedicating 'their lives to defeating a mad gamer and saving the World of Warcraft'. TeamSpeak was mentioned numerous times within the episode as the South Park boys communicated online and worked together toward defeating their PvP rival.

We are humbly thankful for the producers that saw the natural fit to present the South Park boys playing their favorite online game while using TeamSpeak to communicate with one another. This is a big win for the TeamSpeak community and we thank you all for continuing to choose TeamSpeak among all other communication mediums.

Missed the episode? Try visiting the South Park Studios or Comedy Central websites.

Teamspeak Cockfag Mod v1

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Teamspeak Cockfag Mod v1

Why have those same boring old Teamspeak sounds, when you can have the Teamspeak Cockfag Mod v1 from KMA. Changes to some of the original Teamspeak sounds. For example: Player Joined=Cockfag Joined | Player Kicked=Cockfag Kicked, etc......Hear a demo at http://www.rtsforce.com/ranks/21.playerkicked.wav

All done in a Sassy British Female Voice! Download Here

Axis and Allies Multiplayer Simulator

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Yes for all you Axis and Allies Fans we have dug up the Axis and Allies Multiplayer Simulator v1. Been awhile since it was released, and of course there is no patch/update (you should be used to that), but couldnt bear to leave it lost in the archives of the old KMA site.

Cant afford the $20 for the game? No prob! Now you too can enjoy the realistic experience of
Axis and Allies Multiplayer Action!

When I'm not on the Tennis court, I love to login to www.kma-clan.com on my mobile PDA. It cant run the normal Axis and Allies, but it runs KMA's Axis and Allies Multiplayer Simulator v1 just great! You dont even need a Gamepsy acct!

I met alot of cool guys playing Axis and Allies, especially the KMA clan. Sometimes I have too many yahoo personals and chat windows open t the real Axis and Allies! But the Axis and Allies Multiplayer Simulator v1 is always there for me! Thanks KMA! P.S. Call me Gunship I miss you

Launch the Axis and Allies Multiplayer Simulator!

The Next Battlefield - Battlefield Bad Company

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_{from http://battlefieldbadcompany.com/}Currently announced features of Battlefield: Bad Company

Will be release on Xbox 360 and PS3
Release for PC and PSP rumored so far
Singleplayer Campaign with storyline
Set a bit into the future (not far)
90% destructible environments
Uses the "Frostbite" engine by DICE
Multiplayer for up to 24 players

PUBLISHER: Electronic Arts
DEVELOPER: Digital Illusions
GENRE(S): First-Person Shooter
PLAYERS: Multi
ESRB RATING: RP (Rating Pending)
RELEASE DATE: Unknown (Q3 / Q4 2007)

Catch the Trailer at YouTube (click here)

LSD, Madden 07 and Me

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_{Jay Mohr} _{FOXSports.com}

This past year my wife and I were dosed at a restaurant. By "dosed" I mean we were drugged. It was a Mexican restaurant that I won't name — but it rhymes with Tel Jurrito. Judging by the way the parking lot of the restaurant was breathing; we both guessed that it was LSD. We both initially panicked. We went home for safety. My wife had a tough time riding it out.

I played Madden and it saved my life.
Neither my wife nor I do drugs. Neither one of us knew what an acid trip was like, but on that afternoon in the San Fernando Valley, we found out in a hurry. It started shortly after we paid our bill and tipped 20 percent (always!). We both started to sweat and get nervous. My wife kept asking me if I thought it was hot in the restaurant, I told her yes and then started wondering, "How does she know that it's hot in the restaurant?!"

I excused myself and went to the bathroom. Forty minutes later my wife stuck her head in the men's room and asked me if I was okay. Considering I was just sitting on the toilet, fully clothed, taking my pulse over and over again, I quickly surmised that I was not okay.

We decided to go to the store on the way home and get something to drink. My wife grabbed a few bottles of Coke Zero and I grabbed a two-liter bottle of Sunkist. I held it toward the heavens and exclaimed, "Look how ORANGE this is!" Mrs. Mohr said, "I don't like it, it's hurting my eyes!" When I yelled back, "I want to swim in it!" we froze, looked each other in the eye and realized we needed to get home as quickly as possible.

Not being able to tell the difference between taillights and red lights, I stopped for them both. Three hours into what was normally a 10-minute trip, we pulled into our driveway. My bride decided to crawl into bed and try and read a book.

I broke out the Madden '07.

I have always heard people who have done a lot of LSD say that you have to "ride the snake" and "don't let the snake ride you." I rode the snake all the way to The Meadowlands where I was the Jets playing at home against the Chiefs. It was a beautiful day for football. I was tripping my face off and the temperature was 52 degrees.

As Mike Nugent launched the opening kickoff towards Dante Hall, my wife shouted from the bedroom, "Honey, how do you feel?" My answer was, "GREAT!" And I was. The Chiefs wore red and white and the Jets wore white and green. Shaun Ellis wore number 92 and Kerry Rhodes wore number 25. Just like in real life.

A half hour later, I heard from the bedroom, "I am still kind of freaking out!" Not me. I was fine. Four hours into my first acid trip and I had found a safe place ... the Jets' huddle. Everything in this virtual world was just as I desperately needed it.

Chad Pennington wore No. 10 and Laveranues Coles caught anything that was near him. All the plays in the playbook were the same as when I wasn't tripping and all the players were just how I remembered them. Adrian Jones was useless for pass blocking. Tight ends worked wonderfully for me in the red zone. And the Chiefs couldn't stop the run against a Pop Warner team.

Pennington still had a weak arm and after he threw an interception I slammed my head set down on the ground and began screaming at the assistant coaches around me. As I started to ask Chad what the hell he was thinking, my wife hollered from the other room, 'Honey who are you yelling at?' I didn't really have an answer for her ... I meekly replied, "my coaches" and stared down at my fingers. Then I had a revelation! When you play Madden, your fingers are your coaches! Wow, was I HIGH!

For the love of God, please go out and buy your Madden '08 Tuesday. It might save your life. You never know when you might get slipped a mickey and find yourself listening to the Black Crowes, white knuckling a 55-yard field goal attempt as the walls of your house melt around you. I am going to get my Madden tomorrow and I'm suddenly craving enchiladas.

EA SPORTS, "Madden. Ride the snake."

Best of lucky, Jay Mohr

BF2 Reference Center

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Of course we have to include BF2 for all the KMA BF2 freaks out there. The BF Reference Center is up and running including info on all sorts of BF2 related stuff:

Main	About	System	Modes
Ranks	Medals	Badges	Ribbons
Maps	Weapons	Vehicles	Classes

Remembering

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It has been almost a year since Shane Campbell, known to us all as (KMA)Sublime, passed away. While most of us old-timers of the clan got to know him very well during his time here, he and I were pretty much inseparable. It seemed that Sublime and I played every game we could together, and spent time just screwing around with each other late into the night.

When I first joined KMA in the summer of 2004, I didn’t really know many people in the clan. Granted, KMA was much smaller than it is know, but aside from Jax, Sublime was one of the first people I talked to and befriended. Our friendship grew over the next few months until we became inseparable. Jax and Spastic, among others, often commented to me that Sublime and I were like 1 person. Us 3 were probably hit the hardest from this tragedy. I speak for myself when I say that I shed tears when I heard the tragic news, and I don’t doubt that both Jax and Spastic did. I had grown away from the game in the few months preceding Shane’s death, and everyone, including Shane, tried to bring me back to the game I had obsessively played over the summer. While I tried when I could, I had drifted so far away from Axis that I had basically forgot how to play. When I learned of Shane’s death, there was almost no point for me to continue playing. I stepped even further away from the game, and even from the clan. I seriously considered removing myself because I felt like it reminded me too much of the great friendship I had built with Shane. I spent a lot of my time contemplating what I could have done with those few months. Shane and I would have, in all likelihood, grown closer. I already thought of him as one of my best friends, and I just wish I had more time to get to know him, and think of him as a brother.

As the 20th of January approaches, I would ask our clan to do something in memoriam of Shane Campbell. For someone you never knew face to face, and only by the name of (KMA)Sublime. For a friend of mine. For Shane.

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Timezones | Around The World

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Every wonder what time it is at Gunny's house? Want to syncronize your watch with JaxSaints? Use the handy little tool to find out what time it is anywhere in the world, right here on the KMA site (click here)
© 2003 by Plaino | http://www.plaino.com/

Sleeze Bag of the Month

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NASSAU, BAHAMAS -- DNA tests have confirmed which sleezebag manwhored his way to millions. Larry Birkhead is the father of Anna Nicole Smith's million-dollar lovechild. "I told you so!" the late Playboy Playmate's former boytoy said Tuesday after leaving a court hearing. He remarked: "My baby's going to be coming home pretty soon." One has to wonder what exactly he considers his "baby"

China treats Internet addicts sternly

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A 12-year-old boy receives electric shock treatment for his Internet addiction at the Beijing Military Region Central Hospital on June 17, 2005.

^{From: The Washington Post © 2007}
DAXING, China - Sun Jiting spends his days locked behind metal bars in this military-run installation, put there by his parents. The 17-year-old high school student is not allowed to communicate with friends back home, and his only companions are psychologists, nurses and other patients. Each morning at 6:30, he is jolted awake by a soldier in fatigues shouting, "This is for your own good!" Sun's offense: Internet addiction.

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KMA's Top 10 War Films of All Time

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Just thought we would get the war film discussion going, with our top 10 war films of all-time list...(in no particular order) A couple of lesser known films we would recommend would be The Guns of Navarone (1961) and The Great Raid (2005). Your comments and suggestions are encouraged and appreciated! Make sure to vote in our Best war film of all time poll or comment in our War Films Forum Thread

Apocalypse Now (1979)
Vietnam, 1969. Burnt out Special Forces officer Captain Willard is sent into the jungle with top-secret orders to find and kill renegade Colonel Kurtz who has set up his own army within the jungle. As Willard descends into the jungle, he is slowly over taken by the jungle's mesmerizing powers and battles the insanity which surrounds him. His boat crew succumbs to drugs and is slowly killed off one by one. As Willard continues his journey he becomes more and more like the man he was sent to kill.
Written by Michael Arndt

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden (Jack Hawkins) and an American, Shears (William Holden), to blow up the bridge.
Written by alfiehitchie

Das Boot (1981)
It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so called "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy English shipping. With better escorts of the Destroyer Class, however, German U-Boats have begun to take heavy losses. "Das Boot" is the story of one such U-Boat crew, with the film examining how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers, attempted to accomplish impossible missions, while all the time attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served.
Written by Anthony Hughes

Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother...
Written by J.Zelman

The Great Escape (1963)
Based on a true story, a group of allied escape artist type prisoners of war are all put in an 'escape proof' camp. Their leader decides to try to take out several hundred all at once. The first half of the film is played for comedy as the prisoners mostly outwit their jailers to dig the escape tunnel. The second half is high adventure as they use boats and trains and planes to get out of occupied Europe.
Written by John Vogel

Full Metal Jacket (1987)
A two-segment story that follows young men from the start of recruit training in the Marine Corps to the lethal cauldron known as Vietnam. The first segment follows Joker, Pyle and others as they progress through the hell of USMC boot-camp at the hands of the colorful, foul-mouthed Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. The second begins in Vietnam, near Hue, at the time of the Tet Offensive. Joker, along with Animal Mother, Rafterman and others, face threats such as ambush, booby traps, and Viet Cong snipers as they move through the city.
Written by Derek O'Cain

The Deer Hunter (1978)
Michael, Nick, and Steven are three buddies from the steel mill town of Clairton, Penn.They are like schoolmates, hanging out in a local bar and enjoying weekends of deer-hunting. Michael and Nick are also both in love with Linda, who seems to juggle both of the men. But their placid life is soon to be changed after they are enlisted in the airborne infantry of Vietnam. So they all celebrate a goodbye at Steven's wedding and they leave to Vietnam, where they are captured by the enemy and forced to play a game of Russian Roulette. They escape and return home, but their lives are forever changed. Nick stays in Vietnam, Michael returns to Linda, and Steven is handicapped after losing a leg in the war.
Written by Jasper Yangchareon

Platoon (1986)
Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young, naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam. Upon arrival, he quickly discovers that his presence is quite nonessential, and is considered insignificant to the other soldiers, as he has not fought for as long as the rest of them and felt the effects of combat. Chris has two commanding officers, the ill-tempered and indestructible Staff Sergeant Robert Barnes (Tom Berenger) and the more pleasant and cooperative Sergeant Elias Grodin (Willem Dafoe). A line is drawn between the two officers and a number of men in the platoon when an illegal killing occurs during a village raid. As the war continues, Chris himself draws towards psychological meltdown. And as he struggles for survival, he soon realizes he is fighting two battles, the conflict with the enemy and the conflict between the men within his platoon.
Written by Jeremy Thomson

The Guns of Navarone (1961)
1943. With the battle of Stalingrad turning the war against them, the Germans are attempting to bully neutral Turkey into joining the Axis; to this end they have trapped 2,000 British soldiers on Kiros, an island in the Aegean, with only one sea route for evacuation, a sea route commanded by two gigantic German antiship batteries deployed in a massive cliffside bunker on the island of Navarone. Immune to air attack and too much for Allied battleships to suppress, the British muster Keith Mallory, a commando officer who has been working on occupied Crete for nearly two years and who is an expert mountaineer, to ferry a team of British commandos to the only area of Navarone that is not monitored by the Germans, a 400-foot cliff. Greek resistance is to meet the team inland and guide them around German patrols to the area of the German guns. However, the commanding officer of the British team suffers grave injury in the climb and Mallory must take control of the mission, despite clashes with explosives expert John Anthony Miller, who upon the arrival of the night of the raid finds his equipment has been sabotaged, thus exposing a traitor in the team's ranks.
Written by Michael Daly

The Great Raid (2005)
Set in the Philippines in 1945 towards the end of WWII, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Robert Prince, the 6th Ranger Battalion undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, they intend to liberate over 500 American Soldiers from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever.
Written by themusicman999

Black Hawk Down (2001)
Action/war drama based on the best-selling book detailing a near-disastrous mission in Somalia on October 3, 1993 where nearly 100 U.S. Army Rangers, commanded by Capt. Mike Steele, were dropped by helicopter deep into the capital city of Mogadishu to capture two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord which lead to a large and drawn-out firefight between the Rangers and hundreds of Somali gunmen which led to the destruction of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters in Mogadishu, and the heroic efforts by various Rangers to get to them, centering on Sgt. Eversmann, commanding one Ranger unit named Chalk Four, leading Rangers to the first black hawk crash site, to Warrant Officer Durant who was only survivor of the second black hawk crash site and whom was captured, to Col. McKnight who leads a rescue convoy for the Rangers only to get lost within the hostile city, to Sgt. Sanderson desperately trying to get to the first crash site, to Staff Sgt. Yurek who leads two fellow Rangers, Nelson and Twombly to meet with up their squad, Chalk Four, at the first crash site, to many others involved who where either killed or survived.
Written by Matthew Patay

Honorable Mention
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) - well done but not a film I would see again and again..
Enemy at the Gates (2001) - Good Film, almost made my "Top 10"

Other Popular War Films
Sergeant York (1941)
The Pianist (2002)
Stalag 17 (1953)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Downfall (2005)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
The Longest Day (1962)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Flags of our Fathers (2006)
The African Queen (1951)
Braveheart (1995)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

War Films you can skip...
M*A*S*H' (1970) - having nightmares of bad tv re-runs and a worse movie
Patton (1970) - yawn
Three Kings (1999) - Ice Cube, Marky Mark, and Clooney in a war film?
Schindler's List (1993) - well done but too damn dark and depressing

This is why USA is still a Free country

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U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.

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.

About 4.5 million of the 8 million new guns manufactured worldwide each year are purchased in the United States, it said.

"There is roughly one firearm for every seven people worldwide. Without the United States, though, this drops to about one firearm per 10 people," it said.

India had the world's second-largest civilian gun arsenal, with an estimated 46 million firearms outside law enforcement and the military, though this represented just four guns per 100 people there. China, ranked third with 40 million privately held guns, had 3 firearms per 100 people.

Germany, France, Pakistan, Mexico, Brazil and Russia were next in the ranking of country's overall civilian gun arsenals.

On a per-capita basis, Yemen had the second most heavily armed citizenry behind the United States, with 61 guns per 100 people, followed by Finland with 56, Switzerland with 46, Iraq with 39 and Serbia with 38.

France, Canada, Sweden, Austria and Germany were next, each with about 30 guns per 100 people, while many poorer countries often associated with violence ranked much lower. Nigeria, for instance, had just one gun per 100 people.

"Firearms are very unevenly distributed around the world. The image we have of certain regions such as Africa or Latin America being awash with weapons -- these images are certainly misleading," Small Arms Survey director Keith Krause said.

"Weapons ownership may be correlated with rising levels of wealth, and that means we need to think about future demand in parts of the world where economic growth is giving people larger disposable income," he told a Geneva news conference.

The report, which relied on government data, surveys and media reports to estimate the size of world arsenals, estimated there were 650 million civilian firearms worldwide, and 225 million held by law enforcement and military forces.

Five years ago, the Small Arms Survey had estimated there were a total of just 640 million firearms globally.

"Civilian holdings of weapons worldwide are much larger than we previously believed," Krause said, attributing the increase largely to better research and more data on weapon distribution networks.

Only about 12 percent of civilian weapons are thought to be registered with authorities.

Avatars Added to the Site

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500+ Avatar Added to the Site! Go to your Forums -> Profile and at the bottom of the page click the button. To browse all the avatars, select from the drop-down menu and click go. Select the avatar you want and click

Remember to click at the bottom of the next page and you are done!

New Recruit: Righteou$

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Please welcome Righteou$ to KMA. He's 22 and comes from Tallahassee, Florida. His rank is colonel. If you see him on give him a warm welcome and try to get a game going, he's a good player.

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