Then, in December , 20 first-graders were murdered in a school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, sparking renewed calls for a ban on the AR military-style rifle the shooter had used. One purchase followed another. Three months after the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, Rich owned 10 guns. The collection in his safe includes three AR lower receivers that will allow each of his three children to customize their own rifles when they come of age, whether an assault weapon ban is passed or not.
But Rich said semiautomatic ARs had become a little boring to him. Another third of American gun owners own between three and seven guns. The average is These super-owners include collectors with elaborately curated selections of historical firearms, serious hunters, firearms instructors, gunsmiths, people who love tinkering with and customizing their firearms, and Americans worried about feeding or defending their families in the wake of a disaster scenario.
Risenhoover said he owns about thirty guns, including firearms given to him by his father-in-law and grandfather, his self-defense Glocks, a shotgun for hunting ducks, a larger rifle for hunting elk, and a few.
His daughter is more enthusiastic than his son, he noted. Azrael, Deborah R; Hemenway, David. In the safety of your own home: Results from a national survey of gun use at home.
Social Science and Medicine. Adolescents are far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use one in self-defense. We analyzed data from a telephone survey of 5, California adolescents aged years, which asked questions about gun threats against and self-defense gun use by these young people.
We found that these young people were far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use a gun in self-defense, and most of the reported self-defense gun uses were hostile interactions between armed adolescents. Males, smokers, binge drinkers, those who threatened others and whose parents were less likely to know their whereabouts were more likely both to be threatened with a gun and to use a gun in self-defense.
Hemenway, David; Miller, Matthew. Gun threats against and self-defense gun use by California adolescents. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Using data from a survey of detainees in a Washington D. We found that one in four of these detainees had been wounded, in events that appear unrelated to their incarceration. Most were shot when they were victims of robberies, assaults and crossfires. May, John P; Hemenway, David.
Oen, Roger; Pitts, Khalid R. The vast majority of U. Use this tool to compare the groups on some key topics and their demographics. About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.
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Research Topics. Share this link:. Katherine Schaeffer is a research analyst at Pew Research Center. Facts are more important than ever. A public opinion trend that matters: Priorities for gun policy. Wide differences on most gun policies between gun owners and non-owners, but also some agreement.
Are you a Faith and Flag Conservative? That being said, there is a risk to gun sales, and gun stocks, even among super-owners, and this is the risk that gun companies will fail to give buyers a reason to want to buy new guns. Right now, gun companies and some gun investors are worried that gun sales will slow under a Donald Trump presidency. If this fear begins to translate into gun manufacturers deciding to cut back on research and development, to hunker down and produce fewer new models of guns, then it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
By failing to feed gun super-owners' insatiable desire for new and different models to buy, a failure to innovate on gun design could deprive gun buyers' desire to buy more guns. Now, it's important to note that this is not yet happening. In gun sales as in all sales, the cardinal rule remains: "Give the customers what they want. Discounted offers are only available to new members. Stock Advisor will renew at the then current list price. Average returns of all recommendations since inception.
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