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(Also not American) The numbers in this tweet, if correct, would imply that ~80% of Americans don't own a firearm. If memory serves there's a slightly over 1:1 ratio between registered firearms and American citizens so that would suggest an average of 5 guns per owner.
Only HI requires firearms to be registered in the USA.
And the last research on it, it's around 1/3 of the population.
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/06/22/the-demographics-of-gun-ownership/
That's from 2017, before COVID and trump really amping shit to the max. That 33% thinking about getting a firearm, many of them have. I'd say we're probably around %45 at this point. Many on the left have armed themselves since trump and COVID.
While I agree that, that form is supposed to be destroyed after running it. It's not a registery...even if the ATF is trying to use it like one.
I really like the guitar analogy. Most people don't own a guitar, most people who do own a guitar only own one, and most people who own more than one own a lot of guitars.