Blacksmith101
Grumpy Old Man
- Jun 22, 2012
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Half the 265 million guns (IMHO a way under estimated number) are owned by 3% of the gun owners according to the paragon of gun reporting media Time:
http://time.com/4499088/guns-us-super-owners-report/
That leaves 132 million available for the rest of the households, which is plenty to go around. If household ownership by non "Super Owners" is at 50% that means 61 million households own an average of more than two guns each.
By the way the Time article is cherry picked data based on a Guardian article:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/19/us-gun-ownership-survey
The Guardian was reporting on an unpublished and yet to be peer reviewed survey by some other paragons of "unbiased" gun reporting:
The study it's self was a survey of:
The link to the guardian article is actually a good read that makes many of the points brought up in this thread.
Edit: One of the survey authors is Matthew Jason Miller, here is his Curriculum Vitae:
https://bouve.northeastern.edu/assets/uploads/2014/10/CV_MILLER_MATT_051515mjmshort.pdf
I notice he took a $480,000 grant from the Joyce Foundation, Preventing firearm violence.
http://time.com/4499088/guns-us-super-owners-report/
That leaves 132 million available for the rest of the households, which is plenty to go around. If household ownership by non "Super Owners" is at 50% that means 61 million households own an average of more than two guns each.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/183635/number-of-households-in-the-us/This graph shows the number of households in the United States from 1960 to 2016. In 2016, there were about 125.82 million households in the United States.
By the way the Time article is cherry picked data based on a Guardian article:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/19/us-gun-ownership-survey
The Guardian was reporting on an unpublished and yet to be peer reviewed survey by some other paragons of "unbiased" gun reporting:
The unpublished Harvard/Northeastern survey result summary, obtained exclusively by the Guardian and the Trace, estimates that America’s gun stock has increased by 70m guns since 1994. At the same time, the percentage of Americans who own guns decreased slightly from 25% to 22%.
The study it's self was a survey of:
The Harvard/Northeastern study is based on a survey of nearly 4,000 Americans conducted online in 2015 by a market research company, GfK, with a nationally representative panel of opt-in participants who are compensated to complete surveys on a variety of issues.
The link to the guardian article is actually a good read that makes many of the points brought up in this thread.
Edit: One of the survey authors is Matthew Jason Miller, here is his Curriculum Vitae:
https://bouve.northeastern.edu/assets/uploads/2014/10/CV_MILLER_MATT_051515mjmshort.pdf
I notice he took a $480,000 grant from the Joyce Foundation, Preventing firearm violence.
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