“I seriously doubt the accuracy of this claim.”
I don’t. Not unusual for a small percentage to hold a majority of something influential (money, guns, real estate, etc). It’s an exponential curve, meaning most have few but few have most.
A key statistic he’s pointedly ignoring: 50% of citizens have 100% of the guns.
There’s a diminishing return for someone owning more than others. You can only use one gun at a time, so having 100 guns really doesn’t mean much beyond someone who owns one. As “Click & Clack” put it: the difference between two headlights and one headlight is a whole lot less than the difference between one headlight and no headlight.
To claim that over 50% of the guns are owned by only 3% seems like a real stretch, and done so solely to make it seem like less people are gun owners than what the reality is. That the population is being held hostage by an extremely small minority.
More likely that 3% of gun owners own 10 or more weapons, but they still do not hold 50% of all guns in America. Now I could be wrong, but I just think this claim is not representative of the reality.
There’s a diminishing return for someone owning more than others.
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I don’t see it that way. If I’m going quail hunting, I’m carrying a 20 ga. Ducks, geese, and pheasants, a 16 or a 12. If I’m shooting competition trap, or even just fun and games matches, I’m using a 12 ga.Trap gun. A 22 for plunking, Varmint rifle for varmints, larger for deer or wild boar. and a pistol for personal safety because I’m an old lady with gray hair and like to go where I please when I please with no hassle. If you’re an outdoors lover, Depending on what uses you need a gun for, you will accumulate over a lifetime more than one gun...and then of course you often keep the sentimental ones..........
Gun lovers have something everyone doesn’t have....lots and lots of memorable moments to last a lifetime.