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Rarely do you see the obvious pointed out, which is that almost no one owned a gun in 1787, because all guns were bespoke at the time. Mass manufacturing and standardization didn't come into practice until the Civil War.
Counting Guns in Early America First hit for query “ how many oeople.owned guns in 1787”Gun ownership is particularly high compared to other common items. For example, in 813 itemized male inventories from the 1774 Jones national database, guns are listed in 54% of estates, compared to only 30% of estates listing any cash, 14% listing swords or edged weapons, 25% listing Bibles, 62% listing any book, and 79% listing any clothes.