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Why Record Guns Sales are Not Showing in National Gun Ownership Polls
Ammoland ^ | 16 November, 2015 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 11/16/2015 1:41:56 PM PST by marktwain

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To: marktwain

I sold all my guns to pay for my obamacare policy.

Have to figure what I am going to sell next year.


21 posted on 11/16/2015 2:13:15 PM PST by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: marktwain
Why Record Guns Sales are Not Showing in National Gun Ownership Polls

Because with the current regime trying to grab them, a lot remain "undocumented" - don't call them illegal!

22 posted on 11/16/2015 2:19:27 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty ( Kill 'em all, Let GOD sort 'em out!)
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To: marktwain
There are between 100 and 160 million individual gun owners in the United States. Doubt it. There are only 120 million Men over the age of 18 in the United States.
23 posted on 11/16/2015 2:24:20 PM PST by Toliph
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To: marktwain

I don’t believe that 35% of polled gun owners are lying on polls in a way that can’t be filtered out by the poll design. I am generally skeptical of all analysis that requires us to believe that polls have massive error built into them. The more likely explanation for why NICS checks don’t match up with GSS data on household gun ownership is that gun owning household are buying more and more guns.


24 posted on 11/16/2015 2:24:20 PM PST by Toliph
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To: marktwain

I have lived in the mostly Black southside of Atlanta for 2.5 years now. As when I was in IL, I try to be observant of behavior that reflects political leanings.

So I watch for instances of open carry and concealed carry. I noticed a few bulges under shirts of both Black, White and Hispanics that I figured were concealed carry.

About the time that Bloombergs extremists attacked Kroger, I seemed to notice a significant increase in both concealed and open carry. Now, when I go into Kroger, Walmart or other store with many customers, I see at leas one concealed carry bulge for every 30 or 40 customers. And I see open carry in about 1 in 90 or 100 customers. The concealed carry are of all races, ages, and looks (long hair, short hair, beard, no beard, etc).

The open carry all seem to be in the late 20s/early 30s and military short hair cut... But they are in civies. They are shopping and given he way they relate to the uniform security guards, I doubt they are cops.


25 posted on 11/16/2015 2:25:50 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: Iron Munro
"...NCIS checks are up..."

NICS.maybe?

26 posted on 11/16/2015 2:39:08 PM PST by skimbell
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To: marktwain

I have absolutely no guns in my house!
If you don’t believe me, just come to see me about 3 am some morning and I’ll show you!...............


27 posted on 11/16/2015 2:41:21 PM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Toliph

You don’t think women own guns?


28 posted on 11/16/2015 2:44:22 PM PST by Nachoman (My guns and my ammo, they comfort me.)
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To: skimbell
NICS.maybe?

Fat finger typing and reading dyslexia - a bad combination!


29 posted on 11/16/2015 2:45:22 PM PST by Iron Munro (<p> The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: marktwain

Interesting....but....Shhhhhhhhhhhh!

This can by used by the Fascists to sound the background check alarm......shhhhhh!


30 posted on 11/16/2015 2:48:17 PM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: Toliph

Flawed reasoning. I’m a female and have owned guns since I was 12 years old. I’m in my late seventies and still have several and about to buy another. i also own guns in Europe.
My mother and grandmother were also crack shots as well ass all of my aunts. there are a lot of “wimmins” who know one end of a gun from the other and we’re half the population.


31 posted on 11/16/2015 2:55:39 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Toliph

You should at least believe that various groups of people systematically respond differently to pollsters.

Older people are far more likely to talk with pollsters than any other age group. The hard part is keeping them on topic.

Conservatives are far more likely than any other demographic to hang up on pollsters. The hard part is estimating just how many of them we miss because they won’t talk with us.

There are many other systematic errors in polling, even before you introduce pollster-initiated errors.


32 posted on 11/16/2015 3:06:56 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Starstruck

Perhaps he was paddling to the gunshow.


33 posted on 11/16/2015 3:21:22 PM PST by TalonDJ
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To: Toliph

Married people owning guns count as two. I think my wife might have more than me.


34 posted on 11/16/2015 3:23:10 PM PST by TalonDJ
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To: Yo-Yo

I think the pollsters are asking the wrong questions

First question should be...”Have you had any tragic boat accidents recently?”.

Much more telling...


35 posted on 11/16/2015 3:30:51 PM PST by moovova
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To: Vaquero

Unfortunately I lost all mine in a freak canoe tipping accident.....bummer.

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Red neck that I am.

For me it was a cow tipping accident.


36 posted on 11/16/2015 4:23:50 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: MrB

Was asked about wearing a seatbelt -
I asked what that had to do with my flu shot...

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I got asked that same question on a visit to a neurologist. I asked her what that had to do with anything, she said, “we have to ask”. She never asked me any more stupid questions after that one. I found it quite odd, to say the least.


37 posted on 11/16/2015 4:27:36 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: Vaquero

“Freak” accident? You really thought a canoe would float with that many guns in it?


38 posted on 11/16/2015 4:38:17 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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"Freak" accident? You really thought a canoe would float with that many guns in it?

WHAT WAS I THINKING!!

39 posted on 11/16/2015 4:54:44 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: MrB

**** “Was asked about wearing a seatbelt -
I asked what that had to do with my flu shot...

Then I said - don’t ask me any more questions like that.” ****

When they asked me on a Beach why I was standing there, I told them that as soon as they left I was gonna take a leak, the whole looking at the water thing was a ploy.

They laughed, they left, I continued on w my business. It was actually a risky thing to do, I lucked out, that time.

I now carry a stack of my Lawyers Cards... why not... I paid big bucks just so he would answer the phone. That would be his Business PH #

If I call his Private # he wouldn’t answer at night, that means we just saw each other and I stole/borrowed his Girlfriend or I wanted to tell him his karaoke was off, either way he wouldn’t want to speak to me until morning.


40 posted on 11/16/2015 8:18:19 PM PST by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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