Posted on 09/20/2022 5:24:48 AM PDT by marktwain
On July 16, 2021, Dr. William English submitted a draft report on his extensive National Firearms Survey of 2021.
On July 18, 2021, Dr. William English submitted a draft report on “The Right to Carry Has Not Increased Crime: Improving an Old Debate Through Better Data on Permit Growth Over Time”. This paper will be covered more completely in another article.
In 2021, Dr. William English submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court on the NYSRPA v. Bruen case, which was decided on June 22, 2022. Bruen clarified many contentious points about how Second Amendment cases should be treated by the lower courts.
As both studies took considerable time and effort, the work had considerable overlap. The two studies, it appears, are Dr. English’s first public research contributions to the state of academic firearms knowledge in the United States.
Both papers are more complete than previous studies, employing more granular data and much larger samples, and sophisticated mathematics to analyze the data. The results of the 2021 National Firearms Survey are considered below.
The National Firearms Survey was conducted from February 17 to March 23, 2021. It involved the largest, most comprehensive sample of gun owners in the United States to date. The sample used online polling and started with a survey starting with a representative sample of over fifty-four thousand United states residents. Of the fifty-four thousand samples, 16,708 gun owners were identified to ask in-depth questions about their use and ownership of firearms.
The survey employed sophisticated techniques to gain maximum participation. However, if a respondent was careful not to admit to firearms ownership, they would not be included in the survey. Thus, it is likely the survey is an unknown undercount of actual firearms ownership.
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The survey revealed 415 million private firearms in the United States and 1.67 million defensive uses of firearms a year.
In a sample size of 54,000 Americans only 16,708 gun owners were identified? That doesn’t sound right. I guess the others just refused to answer questions.
How large the undercount is, is unknown.
Yes, I’m sure there were a lot of cagey folks unwilling to respond. You never know who will get the data on YOU & what they will do with it.
If I had any firearms, I would not tell any survey, even one from good guys. I turned in all my firearms when our lord uniter, president rutabaga was selected as leader of this country. Peace in our time, right?
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I will not engage in any dialogue about my hobby with any stranger. Except my primary care physician. She'll bump my sidearm during my annual check up. She's cool with it.
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