I hail from a very large family: 9 bio offspring plus 2 adopted ones.

Four of us were/are male.
I know that two of my brothers have rifles, a .22, a 30.30 and a 30.06, not for 'protection' but from nostalgia. My father had a .22 when I was growing up which we used for target practice. None of us has handguns. I remember that at one time when my oldest brother was 20 or so he had one that he used to shoot rats in our chicken house. (To my knowledge he never hit one.)

All of my brothers have hunted game at one time or another. None of them has done so in the last 30 years.

I don't know what that does to American statistics but I'm pretty sure that our family is not alone.