3% of Americans own 50% of guns in the US(theguardian.com) |
3% of Americans own 50% of guns in the US(theguardian.com) |
- Americans own an estimated 265M guns
- Group of super-owners have an average of 17 guns each
- America’s gun stock has increased by 70M guns since 1994
- 400,000 guns stolen per year
- Roughly 20,000 of America’s more than 30,000 annual gun deaths are suicides
- it’s not clear how many American guns have been broken, confiscated and destroyed by the police, smuggled out of the country