Gun Control & RKBA

krispos: In 1986, 1,000 people purchased (on average) 14.66 guns. In 2015, those same 1,000 people bought 38.95! The peak was 2013, at 49.08.

Those 1,000 people also must've discovered the secret to longevity/ ponce de leon's fountain of youth.
Substantive new gun purchases, in recent years, have inordinately gone to existing gun owners, as the rate of gun ownership has fallen dramatically since the year 2000, accd'g to 4 reputable polls/surveys (GSS, Pew, Gallup (overall), and newbie CBS, jun 2016).

... the declining rates of gun ownership across three major national surveys suggests.. that most of the rise in gun purchases is driven by existing gun owners stocking up, rather than by people buying their first gun. A Washington Post analysis last year found that the average American gun owner now owns approximately eight firearms, double the number in the 1990s.
A 2004 survey found that the average gun owner owned 6.6 firearms, and that the top 3% of gun owners owned about 25 guns each. More recently, a CBS News poll {2016} found that roughly 1 in 5 gun owners owned 10 guns or more.

{CBS poll} June 15, 2016 ... conducted among 1,001 Americans in the aftermath of the Orlando nightclub shooting, 36% of U.S. adults either own a firearm personally, or live with someone who does = household gun ownership.... That's the lowest rate of gun ownership in the CBS poll going back to 1978. It's down 17 points from the highest recorded rate in 1994, and nearly 10 percentage points from 2012.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/29/american-gun-ownership-is-now-at-a-30-year-low/?utm_term=.106f70c53303

Do you or does any other member of your household own a handgun, rifle, shot gun, or any other kind of firearm?
....... Total.. R .. Dem .. Ind
Yes, self ............... 13 20 9 12
Yes, other member.. 13 16 12 11
Yes, self and other.. 10 14 5 12
No .........................58 40 73 57
Don't know/No answer 6 10 2 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/orlando-nightclub-massacre-cbs-news-poll-assault-weapons-ban/

latest household gun ownership rate in the General Social Survey, in 2014, was 32% {corroborated by Pew}. The October 2015 Gallup survey showed a higher rate of 43%, including guns kept on property outside the home.
.. the downward trend in gun ownership remains consistent across the national polls. According to Gallup, gun ownership has fallen by about 10 percentage points since its peak in 1993. The General Social Survey shows a 20-point drop since the mid-1970s.

The 20/80 rule of thumb mentioned in title doesn't really apply to guns here, unless serendipitously or by chance; I just mentioned it as a, well, rule of thumb.

The Pew Research Center has tracked gun ownership since 1993, and our surveys largely confirm the General Social Survey trend. In our Dec 1993 survey, 45% reported having a gun in their household; in early 1994, the GSS found 44% saying they had a gun in their home. A Jan 2013 Pew Research Center survey found 33% saying they had a gun, rifle or pistol in their home, as did 34% in the 2012 wave of {GSS}.

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