“Ownership” is down because no one wants to admit owning a gun for fear of confiscation. How many of us are willingly telling our doctors that we keep guns in the house? Or, given the current emphasis on mental illness or PTSD, what person seeking medication will admit to owning a gun? And then there is the issue of having illegal parts in the communist states of New York and California. No, it’s better to just deny ownership than become a target on some administration’s list. And lest we not forget, there is the contingent of illegal gun owners who would never admit ownership. Of course the liberal media will fail to draw reasonable conclusions from increased sales and decreasing ownership because it doesn’t fit the propaganda campaign they are forcing on the American people.
I was reading your post, and it occurred to me:
Having not read the Obamacare law in its entirety, I’m wondering if answering untruthfully to a question a doctor poses in a health exam amounts to making a false statement on a government form.
You either admit you’ve got guns, or you lie about it, which I agree is likely why the numbers are down. If you lie, it can be argued you made a false statement to a federal official.
How successfully it can be argued in a court is likely something awaiting some cursed bloke who’s kid gets a hold of a person’s gun and injures or kills themselves.
Prosecutor: We subpoenaed your medical records, and it says here you indicated you did not have any guns in the house just last May. If that’s true, how’d your son shoot himself in your bedroom last June?
Citizen Perpetrator: Lawyer.
Prosecutor: Get a good one, because that statement just made your little accident a federal offense. You lied to a doctor. That form went to the IRS. The IRS has you on the record that you didn’t own a gun. You lied, sir. You cop and we’ll reduce all of this to a misdemeanor, but you will have to give up the names of your neighbors you know to possess guns. What say you?