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Three Percent own Half of America’s Guns

posted by martyb on Tuesday September 20 2016, @02:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the taking-aim-at-statistics dept.

aristarchus writes:

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.

Washington Post

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.

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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday September 20 2016, @03:45PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday September 20 2016, @03:45PM (#404282) Journal

    Democrats have the best gun marketing campaign.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by deadstick on Tuesday September 20 2016, @04:59PM

    by deadstick (5110) on Tuesday September 20 2016, @04:59PM (#404326)

    My son took a CCW permit course during the 2008 Presidential campaign. The instructor told them "You have from now until November to buy all the guns you'll need for the rest of your life"...

    • (Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday September 20 2016, @06:43PM

      by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 20 2016, @06:43PM (#404403)

      It does seem to be a "cry wolf" thing now.

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      • (Score: 1) by tftp on Wednesday September 21 2016, @04:21AM

        by tftp (806) on Wednesday September 21 2016, @04:21AM (#404652) Homepage

        It does seem to be a "cry wolf" thing now.

        No [guns.com].

    • (Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Wednesday September 21 2016, @12:08AM

      by Fnord666 (652) on Wednesday September 21 2016, @12:08AM (#404573) Homepage

      My son took a CCW permit course during the 2008 Presidential campaign. The instructor told them "You have from now until November to buy all the guns you'll need for the rest of your life"...

      But it was a great time to be selling!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 22 2016, @12:28AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 22 2016, @12:28AM (#404965)

        Not really. Everyone was sold out of everything, from the manufacturer to wholesale, to retail level.
        A lot of businesses who had the integrity to not price gouge couldn't cope with the general unavailability of things to sell.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 22 2016, @04:02AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 22 2016, @04:02AM (#405020)

      So why is it that the CCW instructors are all right-wing nut-job ammosexual pervs? Do we see a pattern here? III%! Yeah, for stupid!!!!