The average gun owner now owns 8 guns — double what it used to be

[Flyboy_451]

6. Eight really isn't all that many...

Depending on one's activities, eight is barely enough to compete in only two forms of popular competitive shooting. Even modest collectors will easily have more than that. Those who only use firearms for hunting could pretty easily exceed that number. Then account for truly serious collectors and the numbers and get quite large very quickly.

While straw purchases do indeed take place, I think the numbers are over-estimated and likely do not enter into such surveys as this, as I think a straw purchaser is unlikely to admit any ownership to an unknown party as a part of a survey. For that matter, I believe that a number of owners would be unlikely to answer in the affirmative to such survey questions. This could certainly skew the numbers.

Personally, I'm not concerned with how many guns a person owns. However, I am very concerned with how the guns are stored and who has access to them.