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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 ...


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To: Lurkinanloomin; All

They also claim 265 million guns total. That underestimates by 140 million guns.

The low number of guns confirms that they are missing tens of millions of gun owners.

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2017/01/2016-record-year-for-nics-background.html

There have been 150 million guns added since 1999 alone.


81 posted on 01/10/2017 5:15:09 AM PST by marktwain
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To: Arlis
I carry no hand guns. I do have two 79 year old .22 Long rifle, bolt action rifles and 1 Lovingly Maintained, cared for, single shot, break away 100+ year old (it has no serial number engraved or stamped on it any where) Iver Johnson .410 SHOT Gun. The last it was fired and only just one round was 68 years ago.

Jealous?
82 posted on 01/10/2017 5:56:02 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: VanShuyten

Mrs Freedomlover knows about how many I have. How much I paid for them - not so much.


83 posted on 01/10/2017 6:01:18 AM PST by freedomlover
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To: SandRat

No serial numbers required on .22 rifles and shotguns before 1968.


84 posted on 01/10/2017 6:01:51 AM PST by marktwain
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To: Mariner

They probably aren’t counting the illegal guns being traded and sold in ghettos.


85 posted on 01/10/2017 6:03:43 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (If you think the party that freed the slaves are the racist ones, you probably are a liberal.)
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To: heterosupremacist

Motley Fool is a pretty good site — at least it used to be. The guys used to have a financial show on one of the cable news networks.


86 posted on 01/10/2017 6:05:14 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (If you think the party that freed the slaves are the racist ones, you probably are a liberal.)
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To: Mariner

H’mmmm, what the make of the “0.1” part of a gun is? Do folks have an occasional spare part that is being counted? Perhaps only half of a rifle barrel is in their possession to give the .1? Or perhaps it is like those families that have 2. and a percentage children.

Yes I’m being sarcastic and joking.


87 posted on 01/10/2017 6:16:28 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: SandRat

Not really. I do miss the over/under .22/.410 rifle/shotgun my dad gave me when I was 12 though.

One of my son’s inherited a beautiful, mint, Mossberg .22LR bolt-action that is incredibly accurate - built in 1948.....a keeper for sure.

Are you male or female? I understand if you prefer to not say.......


88 posted on 01/10/2017 6:26:47 AM PST by Arlis
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To: Arlis

Male Retired Army.


89 posted on 01/10/2017 8:01:04 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Mariner

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.


Exactly, never disclose information about gun ownership, the information will be used against you someday by liberals.


90 posted on 01/10/2017 8:06:40 AM PST by IVAXMAN
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To: marktwain
All three were given me by my father (the .410) and FIL (the 2, 22LR). Dad & FIL, both were Senor WWII vets. They each first got the weaponss when they were youths.
91 posted on 01/10/2017 8:17:21 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Political Junkie Too

“For knives, I have a large chef’s knife, a small chef’s knife, a paring knife, a tomato knife, a sandwich knife, a carving knife, a bread knife, eight steak knives, a knife sharpener, even an electric knife (semi-automatic?). Each has its purpose, and I don’t arm up with multiple knives.”

What, no pocket knife? Hunting knife? Skinning knife? Survival knife? Utility knife? Taping knife? Butter knife? Palette knife?

I think your collection is highly incomplete.


92 posted on 01/10/2017 8:43:11 AM PST by TalonDJ
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To: TalonDJ
LOL! Maybe I lost those other knives in an unfortunate boating accident?

-PJ

93 posted on 01/10/2017 9:00:14 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: SandRat

Thank you for your service - one son Army vet who did college on GI Bill - family all Navy - I tried to join in Vietnam war but was rejected tho I was star in ROTC....another son w/6 years in Navy is finishing degree in Mechanical Engineering and will return to Navy as officer planning to fly jets.......


94 posted on 01/10/2017 10:11:30 AM PST by Arlis
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To: VanShuyten

Ged ouda here...

“:^)


95 posted on 01/10/2017 10:53:45 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Recall John McCain. NOW, before he gets us in WWIII.)
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To: PAR35

Neither am I.


96 posted on 01/10/2017 10:54:07 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Recall John McCain. NOW, before he gets us in WWIII.)
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To: Arlis
My son was going try to get into Annapolis, but before he could he fell in love with a gorgeous blond, he made his wife and the Mother of two wonderful little boys.

Now he's got a MS in Aerospace Engineering Making Missiles/Rockets for the Defense Dept. The Navy used 2 of the Missie's he was Lead Eng. on to shoot down that Russian Satellite the was loosing its Orbit and going to crash into the U.S.

97 posted on 01/10/2017 11:29:01 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SandRat

More Hellfires!


98 posted on 01/16/2017 6:06:14 AM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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