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I saw new statistics that one in four adult Americans has a AR-15. I know 20 million AR-15's used to be the number in America but I think it is much higher than that by now. 20 million plus rifles but they are used in less than 500 deaths per year. (FBI stats) For 330 million people, very low death rate.
Ban them? You can print up a receiver with no serial number using current 3D printers. Just buy an unregulated parts kit and you can make a fun family activity day, building AR's.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Demographics of AR-15 owners (this was in graph form,it did not export that way)
Gender Male
Female
AR-15 owners 81%
19%
Other gun owners
60
40
U.S. adults overall
49
51
Geography
Rural Suburban
Urban
AR-15 owners
28% 48%
24%
Other gun owners
27
44
30
U.S. adults overall
17
48
35
Location South
West
Midwest
Northeast
AR-15 owners 47%
23%
20%
10%
Other gun owners
44
21
23
12
U.S. adults overall
38
24
21
17
Race White
Hispanic
Black
Other
AR-15 owners 74%
11%
9%
5%
Other gun owners
75
9
10
7
U.S. adults overall 62
17
12
9
Income Under $50K
$50K-$99K
$100K+
AR-15 owners
15%
29%
56%
Other gun owners
27
34
39
U.S. adults overall
29
29
43
Age
Age 18-39
Age 40-64
Age 65+
AR-15 owners
28%
56%
15%
Other gun owners
25
49
26
U.S. adults overall 37
41
22
Education No college degree
College degree
AR-15 owners
67%
33%
Other gun owners
72
28
U.S. adults overall 65
35
Political party Republican
Democratic
Independent
Other/None
AR-15 owners
41%
10%
46%
Other gun owners
36
21
40
U.S. adults overall
27
27
39
7
Military service
Served in military
Did not serve in military
AR-15 owners
28%
72%
Other gun owners
18
82
U.S. adults overall
8
92
Note: Totals may not equal 100 because of rounding.
Source: Sept. 30-Oct. 11, 2022, Washington Post-Ipsos poll of 2,104 gun owners including 399 AR-15-style rifle owners with an overall error margin of +/- 2.5 percentage points and 5.5 points among AR-15 owners. Most U.S. adult demographics based on Census Bureau's 2022 Annual Social and Economic Supplement; Urban/Suburban/Rural from Ipsos KnowledgePanel estimate; party identification from November 2022 Washington Post-ABC News poll.
National surveys by Ipsos in 2022 found that 31 percent of adults own guns. The Post-Ipsos survey of AR-15 owners estimates that 20 percent of gun owners own an AR-15-style rifle. Taken together, the polls find that 6 percent of Americans own an AR-15, about 1 in 20.
The data suggests that with a U.S. population of 260.8 million adults, about 16 million Americans own an AR-15.
AR-15 owners explain why they have the weapon
“To ensure I would not be outgunned if I had to defend my family and property with the rate that society is going.” A 52-year-old man..........65 percentile state this.
