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Dog there is 1.5 guns per american
Yay! I get to be above average in at least one thing!
Seriously though - the numbers and averages don't really give a good picture of gun ownership in the US. Something like 40-ish% of US households have at least one firearm. But then somewhere around 1-5% of people in the US have something like 50% of all of the guns in the US (I'm pulling these numbers out of my ass, but it's pretty stark). If you get into competitive shooting, it ends up being really easy to have a lot of guns. So while the average might be 1.5, lots of people have no firearms at all, and a relatively small number of people have, like 20 each.