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You'll Never Guess How Many Guns the Average Gun Owner Has
The Motley Fool ^ | January 9th, 2017 | Rich Smith

Posted on 01/09/2017 6:09:46 PM PST by Mariner

We Americans love our guns -- and apparently, we love them twice as much as we used to.

We first twigged to this trend in 2015, when an astounding story on The Washington Post's Wonkblog site revealed that the average number of firearms owned by a "typical gun-owning household" had roughly doubled between 1994 and 2013, to 8.1 guns per household. The trend has only gone up since.

How do we know this? A recent Harvard/Northwestern University joint study estimates that America's 319 million citizens own about 265 million guns today. And although from 1994 to 2016 the number of Americans who own guns decreased from 25% to 22% -- and has in fact been declining over the past 20 years -- FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System data show that gun sales set new records for the past 18 straight months through November.

Translation: Fewer households owning guns, but more absolute gun sales, equals an increase in the number of guns owned per gun-owning household.

(Excerpt) Read more at fool.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; guns
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These studies aren't worth spit because everbody knows you don't tell anybody how many guns you have. Or what caliber they may be. Long or short, old-style or semi.

Nothing. Not even here.

1 posted on 01/09/2017 6:09:46 PM PST by Mariner
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A lot of boating accidents...


2 posted on 01/09/2017 6:11:44 PM PST by griswold3
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“We first twigged to this trend in 2015”

These geniuses are slow! Where they been since 2008? Oh yeah, hanging out with the rest of the pajama boys at the DNC.


3 posted on 01/09/2017 6:14:44 PM PST by Redcitizen
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When you have to sit down and do an inventory,you may have enough guns.Or not.....


4 posted on 01/09/2017 6:14:50 PM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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These studies aren't worth spit because everbody knows you don't tell anybody how many guns you have. Or what caliber they may be. Long or short, old-style or semi.

Exactly. They said they noticed a drop in the number of males owning guns. I wonder why. LOL.

5 posted on 01/09/2017 6:15:26 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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Only 8.1 guns per owner? Hmmm....seems a little light.


6 posted on 01/09/2017 6:15:26 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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I have probably 15 powder burners and about the same number of airguns. There are huge gaps in my gun needs.

Still, I can remember when Daddy only had a .22 Remington model 513, a Single barrel Essex shotgun and a WWII trophy Luger. He did buy a Browning Auto 5 around 1958 but had sold the Luger by then.


7 posted on 01/09/2017 6:15:29 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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“If two is one, and one is none…”


8 posted on 01/09/2017 6:16:01 PM PST by niteowl77 (Don't need no Bushes. Don't need no Clintons. Don't need no fooling around.)
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I don’t know of anybody that owns just one gun. Still, I give the study a little more credit than you do. But in the end I think it’s just an educated guess more than a “study”.


9 posted on 01/09/2017 6:16:05 PM PST by Artemis Webb (Ted Kennedy burns in hell.)
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Agreed.

Anyone divulging what they own is asking for trouble.

I advise folks not to talk about their weapons at all. Don’t talk about ammo or any devices you may own.


10 posted on 01/09/2017 6:16:26 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Recall John McCain. NOW, before he gets us in WWIII.)
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‘scuse me, but I will never click on a site that is named fool.com HA!


11 posted on 01/09/2017 6:16:39 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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Only 8.1 guns per owner? Hmmm....seems a little light.

Maybe that's per room.

12 posted on 01/09/2017 6:19:38 PM PST by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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Real light...

;-)


13 posted on 01/09/2017 6:21:52 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (GET OUT OF DONALD'S HOUSE!)
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To: CodeToad

Maybe you are just above average.


14 posted on 01/09/2017 6:21:55 PM PST by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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“Only 8.1 guns per owner? Hmmm....seems a little light.”

Yeah, I think it’s 8.2.


15 posted on 01/09/2017 6:22:34 PM PST by ConsCA
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Some. Several. A number.

Who wants to know?


16 posted on 01/09/2017 6:23:04 PM PST by OKSooner (www.greatagain.gov <= Go here to put a note in the suggestion box!)
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I live in Arizona ... I would never have an “evil” gun


17 posted on 01/09/2017 6:23:31 PM PST by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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And how many are private sales?

I hope 3d printing goes big time soon.


18 posted on 01/09/2017 6:23:31 PM PST by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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I better get busy upping mine.

Can I count my crossbow? It will go through someone.


19 posted on 01/09/2017 6:23:49 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Drain the swamp. Build the wall. Open the Pizzagate. I refuse to inhabit any safe space.)
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Tell a doctor you have guns and it’s entered into a federal database - I suspect that MANY gun owners are quiet about their hardware when some snowflake calls them and asks.


20 posted on 01/09/2017 6:24:07 PM PST by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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