The List: We Have A Lot Of Guns
It's well known that Americans own a lot of guns. A whole lot of guns. To find out just how many, we checked in with the Statistic Brain Research Institute to get the actual numbers.
- Number of Americans who own a gun: 76,000,000
- Average number of guns owned in a gun-owning household: 8
- Average number of guns owned in a gun-owning household in 1994: 4.2
- Number of gun purchase applications in 2015 (last year stats were available): 23,141,970
But what was most interesting is that the percent of gun ownership has stadily dropped over the past forty years.
- Gun ownership household percentage in 1977: 51%
- Gun ownership household percentage in 2016: 31%
To no surprise, though, the demographic that owned the most guns: the conservative Southern white male, over 50, with a high school education or less.
Source: statisticbrain.com/gun-ownership-statistics-demographics/