The Americans who stockpile guns There are hundreds of millions of guns in the United States—enough, according to several estimates, for every American civilian adult to own more than one. But actual gun ownership is far more lopsided than that. A sweeping new survey by researchers at Harvard University and Northeastern University finds that roughly half of the nearly 300 […]
Just How Many Guns Do Americans Actually Own? The Small Arms Survey count is significantly higher than one produced by the National Firearms Survey, a joint project of Harvard and Northeastern University, which in 2015 estimated that American civilians owned 265 million guns. Its authors calculated that the nation’s firearms stockpile had increased by only about 70 million guns since 1994, the last time […]