The Obama Gun "Super Owner" - New Study Finds 50% Of Guns Owned By Just 3% Of Population

Zero Hedge ^ | 9-25-2016 | Tyler Durden

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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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[DoughtyOne]

Okay, great...

Right handgun in the right circumstances, you might cause some harm to the enemy forces.

[Taxman]

LOL!

[Taxman]

I just hope and pray that every American gun owner votes for Trump!

There are roughly 125,000,000 households in America.

We are about to find out how many voters in these households own guns and/or believe in the Second Amendment.

The “experts” estimate that the inhabitants of anywhere FRom 30% - 50% of these households are gun owners.

Messing with the numbers (and there is certainly no way to accurately estimate how many of these are gun owner households) yields the possibility of as many as 100,000,000 votes for Trump.

I reckon 100,000,000 votes ought to get the job done on Nov. 8!

[FReepers: I fully realize that 100,000,000 votes for Trump is not going to happen. We barely had a total of 120,000,000 people vote in the last Presidential election. What I AM saying is that the potential is there for a huge gun owner vote for Trump. HST, this election will certainly be a record turnout — hopefully in Trump’s favor!]

[Taxman]

YUP!