Find the source, if you can....
As I mentioned earlier, in the USA TODAY article it is mentioned that the study where the 3% owns 50% figure comes from is neither formally completed, nor peer-reviewed. The figure being thrown about by the "news" is something that was "leaked" from the still incomplete study.
AND, they state that the actual data used by the study was taken from ANOTHER company's earlier ONLINE SURVEY.
Now, I don't know about you, but I don't think an online study (of ANYTHING) can be considered something accurate when applied to the ENTIRE population.
I know lots of people, even gun owners
, who have NO online presence at all.
That alone is enough to show me that despite the modern era, there are a LOT of people who simply aren't going to be represented in any online anything.
And then there is the simple fact that there is no filter of any kind that can work around deliberate lies. I know a number of otherwise honest people that simply delight in screwing with polls and surveys, about almost everything.
Personally, not only do I reject the author's conclusions, I dispute the accuracy of the data he cherry picked to reach them.