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Just watched Foxnews and they talked about a newly coined term, "Super Owner", for gun owners who own more than 17 guns. They are basing this off of a new study stating that 1/2 of America's guns are owned by 3% of the population. Apparently no one owns the other 1/2 of American guns.

Now people are attempting to label gun owners as "Super Owners" which is like 'gun nut', 'gun zealot' or 'gun culture' as if owning a gun makes you automatically a bad person. They are attempting to equate gun ownership with negativity.


I've said it before:


Owning a gun makes me as much a part of gun culture as eating food makes me a part of food culture or owning a car makes me part of car culture.




https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/20/gun-ownership-america-firearms-super-owners




Meet America's gun super-owners – with an average of 17 firearms each

Some are collectors with elaborately curated selections of historical firearms, while others are ‘just accumulators’. They say it is surprisingly easy to get to 17

Lois Beckett Tuesday 20 September 2016

For years, Rich, a refinery operator from Wilmington, Delaware, was a typical American gun owner. He had only one or two guns, including a handgun he stashed in a bottom drawer in his bedroom. He never took it out and never fired it.....One purchase followed another. Three months after the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, Rich owned 10 guns. Today, he says, it’s at least 43, and he asked that his last name not be published, for fear that publicizing too many details might attract thieves.The 39-year-old is now one of America’s firearms super-owners – part of the 3% of American adults who collectively own 130m firearms, half of the nation’s total stock of civilian guns.

These super-owners include collectors with elaborately curated selections of historical firearms, serious hunters, firearms instructors, gunsmiths, people who love tinkering with and customizing their firearms, and Americans worried about feeding or defending their families in the wake of a disaster scenario. But you don’t have to be prepping for the breakdown of civilization to end up with 17 guns. In fact, gun enthusiasts say, it’s surprisingly easy to get to 17 – especially because many Americans inherit multiple guns from their parents and grandparents.

“I’m what used to be considered a Joe Average American,” Towsley said. “I’m a little conservative in my politics. I work hard. I pay my taxes, I raised my kids ... I try to give back.”

“How many guns is enough? I don’t know – I’ll let you know when I get there.”
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Well heck, at least I am Super at something. I think I have 18 whole guns. :)
 
The order of the words and concepts used implies that they will be looking for some law regard Super Owning, that they will claim 97% support restrictions on the 3% who are "super owners"
 
sonicmaster577: The order of the words and concepts used implies that they will be looking for some law regard Super Owning, that they will claim 97% support restrictions on the 3% who are "super owners"
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Like taxing the 1%.....you know, the 'bad people'.
 
I am listed as a "Super Lawyer" in the upper Midwest. I suspect I am not the only Super Lawyer who is also a Super Owner...
 
Isn't the choice of terminology from "gun nut" to "super owner" putting a positive, more PC spin on it?
 
This reminds me of those newspaper articles about the drug dealer they busted with an "arsenal". The accompanying photograph then shows 3 long guns, 2 of which are bolt action .22s, a brick of LR and some loose shotgun shells. Some arsenal. Kinda like us "super owners".:rolleyes:
 
It's the slippery slope....

some percent of people, Gun owners included, will go along to get along, as long as it's not impacting them. So they'll set some number....then over the years reduce it.

Same with Magazine capacity, any specific type of firearm, etc. etc.

IF you are on this site, a NRA Member and you dont know who your voting for.... there are likely 3 Supreme Court Appointments to be made by the next president.

If those selections come from the biggest donors to the Clinton Foundation, you can bet we'll be having these discussions in detail and FOR REAL.
 
Someone posted this on another site and I read the article. Kind of interesting.

I am definitely a "super owner" lol.
 
RX-79G: Isn't the choice of terminology from "gun nut" to "super owner" putting a positive, more PC spin on it?
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They'll say that Americans don't own or support gun ownership, it's a just the 1% that do, the 'Super Owners' and that they are cukes who are out of touch with reality.
 
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Who arrived at the quantity of 17? to achieve Super Owner... Good grief.

One must also consider our present way of life and the kind of financial economy we have lived in since the close of World War II. I say this because before this post-war economic change, one had to be quite well off to acquire more than, say, 10 firearms, let alone! a prudent stock of ammunition to feed them. On the other hand, today's middle-class working person seems to have a bit more disposable income with which to pursue their hobbies. We are blessed in this regard.

Because there exists many different disciplines of target shooting, hunting and self-defense, it is remarkably easy over the years to acquire several, different shotguns, as it is lever carbines, as it is bolt rifles, as it is single-action revolvers, as it is double-action wheelies, as it is iconic, single-action semi-automatic pistols... Just three examples of each type of firearm would total 18 firearms and would put one into that category... Then there are one's rimfire firearms... This is why, I would imagine, a 36-gun safe to be a commonly-sold size safe.




They'll say that Americans don't own or support gun ownership, it's a just the 1% that do, the 'Super Owners' and that they are cukes who are out of touch with reality.
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The only kooks who are out of touch with reality are the Dumb-O-Crats, Libberales, bambiists and the blissninnies who seem to have forgotten their history lessons.
 
I guess I'm not a "super owner" yet. If my wife would quite looking at the bank statements I would get there sooner.

Pete
 
Aim1 said:
They'll say that Americans don't own or support gun ownership, it's a just the 1% that do, the 'Super Owners' and that they are cukes who are out of touch with reality.
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The majority of American's don't own guns.

But the term "super owner" isn't what is offending you, it is having the fact of gun distribution pointed out that is uncomfortable.


Personally, the number of guns in the US is immaterial to any civics type discussion. The real question is just how many individuals at any given time could become armed, and how many more would consider it. Almost no one can use more than one gun at a time, so any number above 1 is moot.
 
On the face of it I agree with RX-79G, the term super owner seems like putting a positive spin on it. Adding the super term generally denotes something favorable. Look up the synonyms for super.
 
You mean the way "super predator" was coined...
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The base word "owner" doesn't have nearly the negative connotations as "predator". They could have gone with something worse, like "supernut" or "superclinger".
 
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