‘More guns in fewer hands’: US study charts rise of hardcore super owners | US news | The Guardian

Half of all guns in the US are owned by 3% of Americans, data shows

Americans own an estimated 265m guns, more than one gun for every American adult, according to the most definitive portrait of US gun ownership in two decades. But the new survey estimates that 130m of these guns are concentrated in the hands of just 3% of American adults – a group of super-owners who have amassed an average of 17 guns each.