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3% of Americans own 50% of guns in the US

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Re: 3% of Americans own 50% of guns in the US

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Interesting highlights:

- 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