Posted on 09/25/2016 4:20:37 PM PDT by blam
Tyler Durden
Sep 25, 2016 7:10 PM
A recent Harvard study of the demographics of gun ownership in the United States yielded a fairly shocking discovery, namely the emergence of the Obama gun "Super Owner." The study, entitled "The Stock and Flow of US Firearms: Results from the 2015 National Firearms Survey", was conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health and found that just 14% of all gun owners, or 7.6mm adults and 3% of the total U.S. population, possessed 50% of all guns owned by civilians in the country. Moreover, with a total stock of 270mm civilian-owned guns in the U.S., that implies that these "super owners" possess an average of nearly 18 guns per person.
Gun owning respondents owned an average of 4.85 firearms (range: 1-140); the median gun owner reported owning approximately two guns. As can be seen in Figure 3, approximately half (48%) of gun owners report owning 1 or 2 guns, accounting for 14% of the total US gun stock, while those who own 10 or more guns (8% of all gun owners), own 39% of the gun stock. Put another way, one half of the gun stock (~130 million guns) is owned by approximately 86% of gun owners, while the other half is owned by 14% of gun owners (14% of gun owners equals 7.6 million adults, or 3% of the adult US population).
Another startling discovery in the data, though "oddly" not highlighted in the report, is that the surge in gun ownership per capita seemed to coincide with the start of the Obama presidency and growing rhetoric over new gun regulations.
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Weapon inequality.
Their “poll” is totally suspect. Who would tell Harvard anything about canoe accidents?
Liberals encounter Pareto’s Law, confused when they think “fairness” and equal distribution of everything are a natural constant.
I collect ammunition.
I used to know, before the accident.
I don’t own any guns. Honest.
And since we own so many guns, perhaps “somebody” needs to stop screwing with us!
CC
This must be the III% that Mike Vanderboegh would refer to.
Yay! I’m super at something!
Why, in my culture, it is nobody’s FReaking business if I own any buns or how many guns I own!
HST, If every gun owner in the USA voted for Trump, he would win in a huge landslide!
Hmmm....10 million ‘super gun owners’? Sounds like an army
“...the surge in gun ownership per capita seemed to coincide with the start of the Obama presidency”
That is quite correct. Gun sellers started have their phones ring off the hook from buyers looking for firearms to purchase the night Obama was elected in November of 2008. And the demand for both arms and ammo just will not quit.
And studies show that 50% of the political and religious blogs and newsletters in this country are written by 3% of the population.
We are adding about 20 million guns a year in the US. And we've bought 100 million since Obama got in. There are a lot more than 270 million guns here, that's for sure.
Since I don’t have any firearms (be sure to tell BATFE and the NSA) I support an affirmative action gun giveaway to equip all of us who are deprived.
I have an arsenal. So there’s there’s that.
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