Posted on 03/10/2015 9:45:14 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Gun ownership among Americans at a record low, survey finds
By Tribune wire reports contact the reporter
The number of Americans who live in a household with at least one gun is lower than it's ever been, according to a major American trend survey that finds the decline in gun ownership is paralleled by a reduction in the number of Americans who hunt.
According to the latest General Social Survey, 32 percent of Americans either own a firearm themselves or live with someone who does, which ties a record low set in 2010. That's a significant decline since the late 1970s and early 1980s, when about half of Americans told researchers there was a gun in their household.
The General Social Survey is conducted by NORC, an independent research organization based at the University of Chicago, with money from the National Science Foundation. Because of its long-running and comprehensive set of questions about the demographics, behaviors and attitudes of the American public, it is a highly regarded source of data about social trends. lRelated Activists push bill to openly carry handguns in Texas
Data from the 2014 survey was released last week, and an analysis of its findings on gun ownership and attitudes toward gun permits was conducted by General Social Survey staff.
The drop in the number of Americans who own a gun or live in a household with one is probably linked to a decline in the popularity of hunting, from 32 percent who said they lived in a household with at least one hunter in 1977 to less than half that number saying so now.
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Whatever you do at Cabela's, don't buy a boat!
Yeah right..
Don’t know if they actaully beleive this themselves or are just trying to fool some of the people, (you know who you are).
When you have to stand in line at the gun counter at Cabela’s while 5 sales reps shpw others weapons, I doubt sincerely that gun ownership is down.
When asked if I have guns in my home, I answer no.
It’s none of anyone’s business whether I do or not,
So I wonder why stats might be off on this matter? /s
Survey done in Chicago then extrapolated to the nation?
Record smashing gun sales for 6 straight years, backlogs and waiting lists for popular models.
Nobody owns guns anymore! - MSM
You get a gun ownership survey on your phone do you trust it to be a dispassionate survey or is it the government locating targets?
Only 32% in the same survey reported phone ownership.
No, no, no....canoe accident...at the lake. Which lake you ask? Um...I don’t recall.
exactly, or some lefty- whackos that will publish your information to their minions
A reality where Socialism actually works... and that can only be false.
Now change it to: We pretend to have no guns and they pretend to have an accurate survey!
“A reality where Socialism actually works... and that can only be false.”
And they’ve actually never found that Socialism works but that’s only because they have yet to find the “right person” to do the implementation. It’s kinda like the muzzies looking for the “12th Immam.”
“It could also be that people just don’t want anyone to know if they have a firearm or not. I know if a doctor asks me if I have a firearm in my house, I may ask why or say I would rather not answer and if he presses, I would tell him no. “
Never equivocate on this question to anyone you don’t know personally. I would not give my doctor, or anyone else in the HC business any reason to question the validity of my answer. When I am asked, I always respond with something on the order of “ now why would anyone want one of THOSE things.” Ditto for the cops in a traffic stop.
Yeah, it’s really gets funny when they start denying Communist and socialists country’s are Communist and socialists country’s.
That way they can deny it has ever failed.
Yeh tell it to the gun industry. LOL!
It’s cause we lie about gun ownership cause we know someday obammybots or whatever goon squad is coming for em.
The corrected title should read :
*Number of Americans who admit to total strangers that they own guns at record low*
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