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The poll cited in the article claims that "... the percentage of homes with a gun has fallen from approximately 50 percent to 32 percent."

Yet more recently, "The number of people with those cards [Illinois FOID cards] has soared from a little over 1 million in 2010 to 1.8 million this month."

Not even close.

Let's look at this another way. The poll claims that 18 percent of households with a gun rid themselves of it. Since there are about 115 million households, that would mean that 18 percent of them, or about 21 million households, gave up their guns.

Somebody somewhere is soaking up a lot of used guns. It's not me. Honest.

27 posted on 03/12/2015 2:31:42 PM PDT by William Tell

To: William Tell

Over 100,000 CCW permits have been issued in Illinois in the last 12 months. There are two new gun manufacturers operating in Illinois in the last 12 months that I know of. Both make nothing but AR15 variants.

Both have backlogs.

This “study” is worthless.

57 posted on 03/12/2015 7:18:50 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)

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