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.
Rough calculations...
There are 300m people and 300m guns in the USA.
3% of the population is 9,000,000 people.
50% of the guns is 150,000,000 guns.
That averages to 17 guns per 3% constituent.
That is a _very_ reasonable conclusion.
A sensibly complete gun collection would typically include
1. bolt-action rimfire rifle
2. bolt-action centerfire rifle
3. semi-automatic rimfire rifle
4. semi-automatic centerfire rifle
5. pump-action shotgun
6. double-barrel shotgun
7. rimfire semi-automatic pistol
8. centerfire semi-automatic “target” pistol
9. centerfire semi-automatic “defense” pistol
10. revolver
11-17. one or more additional variations on several of the above.
...all of which add up to the price of one new car, and all of which do not normally “wear out” (to wit: you buy one, you’ve likely got it for the rest of your life).