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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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday September 20 2016, @07:55PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday September 20 2016, @07:55PM (#404438) Journal

    Don't forget you can make your own guns. My friend's father was a talented weaponsmith and made them for friends all the time. He had something like ten rifles he kept for himself.

    You don't have to register any of those, and even if you did, why would you? It would just give some officious bureaucrat or would-be tyrant a road map to come and take them away.

    Then there are the assault rifles many of the Vietnam Vets brought back and buried in caches in the mountains where I grew up. They did that because they didn't trust one mother in the government and wanted to make sure they could arm themselves at any time. It would surprise me if returning vets from all our wars since hadn't done the same.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 21 2016, @01:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 21 2016, @01:03AM (#404603)

    Then there are the assault rifles many of the Vietnam Vets brought back and buried in caches in the mountains where I grew up. They did that because they didn't trust one mother in the government and wanted to make sure they could arm themselves at any time. It would surprise me if returning vets from all our wars since hadn't done the same.

    It would surprise me even more if any of those assault rifles worked after being buried in the ground for a few decades.

    • (Score: 2) by dry on Wednesday September 21 2016, @05:33AM

      by dry (223) on Wednesday September 21 2016, @05:33AM (#404666) Journal

      It would surprise me even more if any of those assault rifles worked after being buried in the ground for a few decades.

      Grease, lots of grease.