I do so in my post:
> Fewer people own guns nowadays generally, with only one-third only a single gun, about one-third owning 2-4, and one-third owning >5:
> * https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/06/22/the-dem...
> Seems that only a minority of American (households) own firearms, and the ones that do may simply make more noise than the (silent) majority that do not.
Ownership is more concentrated:
> But America’s gun super-owners, have amassed huge collections. Just 3% of American adults own a collective 133m firearms – half of America’s total gun stock. These owners have collections that range from eight to 140 guns, the 2015 study found. Their average collection: 17 guns each.
* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/15/the-gun-numb...
> Some are collectors with elaborately curated selections of historical firearms, while others are ‘just accumulators’. They say it is surprisingly easy to get to 17
* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/20/gun-ownershi...
Yeah, sorry, serious collectors aren't going out and buying junky Hi-Points and Kel-Tecs. They just aren't.
Which strikes you as more likely:
1) a serious gun collector buys multiple $200 hunks-of-junk.
2) people lie when a stranger calls and asks them about a politically charged topic?
* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/20/gun-ownershi...
And yet sales of new guns are up massively. Can you explain this discrepancy?
Perhaps a better interpretation is that the number of households who will admit owning a gun to a stranger who calls them on the phone went from 45% to 32%.
Someone's buying all those guns, dude. It sure isn't collectors who are buying millions of cheap Hi-Points and Kel-Tecs.