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Major survey shows gun ownership declining (GSS, Univ of Chicago NORC)
Associated Press ^ | Mar 9, 2015 6:27 PM EDT | Emily Swanson

Posted on 03/09/2015 6:21:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai

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. …

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To: Olog-hai

Cool - more for me!


21 posted on 03/09/2015 6:45:58 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: GOPJ

Great tagline.


22 posted on 03/09/2015 6:46:49 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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I never needed much of an excuse to add another firearm to the collection. This headline has me heading out to my local gun shop tomorrow.
23 posted on 03/09/2015 6:53:40 PM PDT by jy8z (When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
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To: Olog-hai
It was the choice of question:

Q: "Do you own a gun"

A: Of course not!

24 posted on 03/09/2015 6:54:52 PM PDT by aragorn (We do indeed live in interesting times. FUBO.)
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To: Leaning Right

I live in MA. They know what I have and pretty much where it is.

Except for the ones that have been handed down. For some reason, those forms never got filled out. And they have nazi inspector marks on them. My God, if they saw those I would be up the creek.

You know, if I had them. Which I don’t.


25 posted on 03/09/2015 6:57:55 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (When you are inclined to to buy storage boxes, but contractor bags instead.)
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To: Olog-hai

Not even remotely possible.

This “survey” is bogus.


26 posted on 03/09/2015 7:10:27 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: skeeter

The tragedies have become so frequent and widespread that the term “tragic boating accident,” in the context of a total firearm loss, has acquired its own acronym, TBA. Saves a lot of time when discussing these frightful events.


27 posted on 03/09/2015 7:19:17 PM PDT by libstripper (")
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To: Olog-hai

Gun sales are off the charts; gun making is one of the few booming manufacturing businesses left in this country and stock prices have surged since the Marxist took office in 09.
If this survey is to be believed, it means that gun purchases are concentrating among gun enthusiasts and gun owners that fear tyrannical government. That not all bad; this would mean that the metrosexuals, trendies and Leftists are not buying guns. If/when martial law or its equivalent comes, they will be easy to round up and subjugated by the government. The zombies trying to escape the metroplexes will be unarmed and ripe for target practice.


28 posted on 03/09/2015 7:19:58 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats & GOPe delenda est. President zero gave us patient zero.)
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To: Vermont Lt
For some reason, those forms never got filled out. And they have nazi inspector marks on them.

Now I know you're just funning me. For it's a fact that all nazi sidearms were confiscated by the Allied authorities right after the surrender. If that wasn't true, then my cousin would have a mint condition nazi Walther PPK, which he doesn't have.

29 posted on 03/09/2015 7:27:53 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: skeeter

Now I know why my local reservoir smells like Hoppes No9.
It’s all those lost guns


30 posted on 03/09/2015 7:34:52 PM PDT by BigpapaBo (If it don't kill you it'll make you _________!)
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To: Olog-hai

Did they survey the Jews in the Ghettos back in the 30’s?

If they were found owning a Gun, they faced Execution.
In other words, what Obama aspires to do to Patriots.


31 posted on 03/09/2015 7:38:18 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Tagline under review by the United States Supreme Court.)
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To: Scrambler Bob

yeh the number of reported guns is probably lower. LOL!


32 posted on 03/09/2015 7:40:20 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Olog-hai

This is not supportable by the facts. Here’s the data for 2013.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/01/07/2013-saw-record-gun-background-checks-n1772931


33 posted on 03/09/2015 7:55:46 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Olog-hai

More anti-gun propagandists publishing BS online. I was just at a gun show a few weeks ago and the place was packed to overflowing and people were buying guns left and right. If anything Americans are buying more guns in response to Obama and the left’s gun grabbing efforts than ever before,


34 posted on 03/09/2015 8:03:46 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Olog-hai

What a pantload. Anybody that admits they are a gun owner to one of these pollsters is crazy in this climate of out of control government.


35 posted on 03/09/2015 8:05:06 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: libstripper

That can get confused with “to be announced” in ambiguous context.


36 posted on 03/09/2015 8:09:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Leaning Right

If I did get one with “prize papers” that allowed import back into the U.S., I would have no idea what happened to them. I think my MIL might have thrown them out not knowing what it was.n after all, they both worked at Smith and Wesson before and after the war, so they knew next to nothing about pistols.

Yeah.. I think it went into the trash.


37 posted on 03/09/2015 8:09:55 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (When you are inclined to to buy storage boxes, but contractor bags instead.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Who in their right mind answers the telephone and tells a stranger that they have a - God forbid - a GUN in the house?

Actually, who answers the telephone? Who still has a land line?


38 posted on 03/09/2015 8:15:49 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Olog-hai

It’s a technique to marginalize gun owners. The opposite of “I think we can all agree...” The facts don’t matter, what is reported matters.


39 posted on 03/09/2015 8:16:22 PM PDT by Fry Panny
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To: Scrambler Bob

If some pollster or Doctor asks if you have guns in the house, of course say “no”. Why set yourself up for future government confiscation? I know it’s none of their business, but if you say you don’t want to answer that kind of question, they put you down as a “yes.”


40 posted on 03/09/2015 8:20:45 PM PDT by RicocheT (us)
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