From The Washington Post:
The survey's findings support other research showing that as overall rates of gun ownership has declined, the number of firearms in circulation has skyrocketed. The implication is that there are more guns in fewer hands than ever before. The top 3 percent of American adults own, on average, 17 guns apiece, according to the survey's estimates.
Interesting. Lawyers, guns, and money! Which of these has the smallest percentage and largest absolute amount? Of course, the other major shift the survey reveals is in the rationale for owning firearms: currently, a majority of owners cite personal protection as their motivation, prior to the 1990's the majority owned guns for sport.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by slinches on Tuesday September 20 2016, @03:00PM
The top $SMALL_PERCENTAGE account for >50% of $THING_CORRELATED_WITH_MONEY is essentially always true.
(Score: 1) by keick on Tuesday September 20 2016, @10:55PM
I wanted to jump in to say the exact same thing as you did. I'll just add, that almost everything follows the Pareto Principal and this is no different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle [wikipedia.org]