@shibao I was wondering how it was possible for the average to be this low. If you divide guns by population, then sure. But these studies supposedly remove the gunless.

Then one day my wife told me about her friend, who has "a Colt". She is a widow and inherited it from her dead husband. I presume it's a 1911 and not a SAA or Pocket Hammerless. But apparently there's a ton of people who only have one or two. They skew the average.