gun ownership

Recent story said that the average gun owner owns 8 guns. My reply is ... only 8? At least it's up from the 1994 Gallup poll that reported only 4 as the average. Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/21/the-average-gun-owner-now-owns-8-guns-double-what-it-used-to-be/

Interesting research from Duke University. There were 310 million guns in the U.S. in 2009 (a Congressional Research Service figure have no reason to dispute), a figure that likely grew to perhaps 350 million by 2013. These guns result in 33,000 deaths in 2013, of which 64% were suicides...