My gut feeling is that, the more guns you own, the less likely it is that you’re going to commit violent violent crimes. I don’t know if anyone tracks any kind of data on that though. People that collect firearms and/or are seriously involved in competition are not typically the people that will be involved in other illegal activities. But, again, I don’t think that there’s data to back this up.

My caveat on that is that there are non-insignificant number of high-volume gun owners that are committing gun crimes, that is, they’re violating the National Firearms Act by owning illegal/unregistered machine guns, unregistered silencers, Other Destructive Devices, etc., or are violating local laws regarding storage, etc. (There’s no storage laws where I live, and, uh, I def. have guns out pretty much all the time. But I have no kids, there’s always someone at home, and I’m in a very rural area where breaks ins are very rare.So I think that there probably should be a distinction between commission of violent crimes using firearms, or crimes related solely to ownership/possession.