The phrase "amount of guns" is not correct in standard written English.
The word "amount" is typically used for uncountable nouns, while "guns" is a countable noun, so "number of guns" would be more appropriate.
Example: "The number of guns in the collection has increased significantly over the years."
Alternatives: "quantity of guns" or "total of guns".
Bean's Para seems to have come home with a huge amount of guns and ammo in his holdall.
One widespread comment was that America is a dangerous place, due to the amount of guns and crime.
The amount of guns and serious weapons people have.
Wong's triad has a large amount of guns hidden in the basement of a hospital.
Plenty of research has found a strong correlation between the amount of guns in an area and its gun homicide rate.
Acknowledging that our country possessing 270 million firearms -- more than every other country ranked in the top 20 in total firearm possession combined -- is absolutely, by every rational measure, ridiculous, is a necessary first step before even beginning the conversation about why we feel the need to own a remarkably disproportionate amount of guns.
Young people in that age range commit a disproportionate amount of gun violence.
If they are properly committed to this principle, there is no massacre, no siege and no amount of gun violence capable of changing, in their estimation, the fact that people are always entitled to guns.
Since no amount of gun-related tragedy seems sufficient to get state lawmakers to dial back on their firearms-friendly laws, we need to find a different approach, or face a future in which citizens of some states are required to carry a weapon with them at all times except when bathing.
Brad Bushman, professor of communication and psychology at Ohio State University, who worked on the study, says researchers "found that the amount of gun violence in PG-13 films, those are films for thirteen or older, had more than quadrupled since the rating was introduced in 1985".
"We've kind of been lulled into submission," González said of the amount of gun violence her generation has witnessed.
