The topic of private gun ownership is often a fraught one, especially in the wake of multiple shootings here in the United States. For that reason, I have deliberately waited for a brief lull in such shootings to write this article.

If we are not currently in the heat of a raging gun control debate, maybe this article will be read in the light in which it is intended to be presented: as informational.

The Gun Ownership Divide

You will often hear it asked in the media, especially in the wake of a mass shooting, why someone needs five guns to hunt deer.

Some find it shocking indeed that only about 32 percent of Americans (roughly 107 million people) own the roughly 500 million guns that are present in the country.

That works out to a little over four and a half guns per gun owner in the

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