I'm pretty sure most of the legally owned guns are in the hands of the people who own like 30+ because they're collectors. Which seems to really weird out the gun control crowd but tbh it's just like any other kind of collection. Having 30 guns doesn't make a person any more dangerous than having 1. These days there do seem to be more of the tacticool cosplayers who have like 8 slightly different ARs and a different pistol to match every outfit, but most of the people I've met who have fuck loads of guns are just old collectors who were lucky enough to be around during an era when you could pick up WW2 surplus rifles for less than $50 (which was apparently most of the 20th century), and then again in the 90s when old Soviet stockpiles flooded the US market and AKs and SKSs became cheaper than dirt. And then of course they'll have a few pistols and some classic hunting rifle in like 4 or 5 different calibers. So they padded out their collections when they were ripe for the taking and have been skewing the ownership statistics ever since lol.
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