About 1 in 10 'angry' adults has access to guns, study finds

About 9 percent of adult US citizens who have a record of impulsive and angry behavior have access to guns, a study released on Wednesday reported.

These people are usually young or middle-aged men who sometimes lose their temper, break things or get into fights, said the study, co-authored by psychiatrists at Duke, Harvard and Columbia universities.

The study was published in the journal Behavioral Sciences and the Law.