I have some serious questions regarding this “study”. I think there are some stones left unturned and strong assumptions made within the statistics. Worse…. it’s based on a collection of data surveyed from 4,000 opt-in, paid participants. Hmmm…. no red flags there at all….. 
I sure wish I was a 3 %er !
I want it on the record now that I do not own any firearms…. 
DT
I often wonder how many of these “we don’t want guns in our house” people have kids who still live at home and have an arsenal tucked away in their rooms?
I knew a kid that grew up in a “tight” household where guns and motorcycles were seen only in magazines and even then hidden from Ma. He had a couple rifles and at least two pistols he kept hidden from them and actually owned a Harley he kept in a storage unit.
I want it on the record now that I do not own any firearms….
DT
lol…..OK, you own guns.
Would this study be a good example of a ‘red herring’ ?
Maybe a subject lobbed up into the air to get gun owners into tizzy? Like a troll would do.
I call bah bah bah bull sheep! Not a chance that’s accurate. Unless they are considering the US armed forces, leo’s and drug cartels.
How ignorant!
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>deertracker wrote:</div>
I want it on the record now that I do not own any firearms….
DTlol…..OK, you own guns.
Tom, maybe it would have been better if I added, “As far as the government knows”. Lol
DT
How many own Guns and never tell anybody, never registered in anyway?
There, there you likely have over 50% of firearms, don’t Ask, Don’t Tell!
Not sure when they started gun registration but from then on every gun is registered, the registration just might not be up to date with the current owner.
DT
I do believe (totally subjective) that most people that own guns, own more than one, so ownership may be somewhat congragated. I ‘lost’ all 20 of mine, though….
“Congregated”. Sorry.
How many people that responded “no guns in the house” to the pollsters actually have some? I’m betting it was a fair number.
I know when I’m asked, my response is “I don’t own any”. I’m certainly not going to give any unnecessary info to some nosy polling company who has no business knowing what I own.
I’m certainly not going to give any unnecessary info to some nosy polling company who has no business knowing what I own.
Nosy polling company wasn’t even the case in this case. 4,000 opt-in, PAID participants filled in the research data. Anyone with an agenda could sign up and say whatever they wanted. Nothing claimed was verified, but accepted as truth. There’s SOOOoooo many things in this article that just had me shaking my head in disbelief. Easily one of the all time worst research reports I’ve seen in my life!
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised at all if this is true.
Obviously there is some agenda trying to be attached here, not saying I agree with whatever that is.
318MM people in the US, 3% = 9.5MM. 256MM guns / 9.5MM people = ~26.8 guns per person in the top 3%. Meh, my uncle has more guns than that. I’m sure there are rich dude gun collectors out there with thousands of guns…
To me this was a No Sh!t Sherlock “study” that reached a totally obvious conclusion. Everything in nature is on a bell shaped curve. This was just a lame and scientifically invalid attempt to quantify the curve.
Obviously, the political agenda is to try to paint gun owners as being part of a tiny minority and to set up a stereotype of the gun owner as being barricaded in a bunker with a number of guns that is “in excess of what one person should be allowed to own”.
Wouldn’t it be far more valid and relevant to do a study on the scope of illegal possession of firearms by gang members in Chicago?
Considering the huge and out-of-control homicide issuee, I think it would be far more important to understand the sheer size of the epic fail in states like Illinois. America needs to understand and learn from the sheer size of this failure so other states don’t go off the rails like Illinois has by focusing on useless firearms legislation that has zero effect on crime. It could well be that in the counties around Chicago there are now more illegal guns than there are legal ones by a huge margin. Of course this totally has debunked the argument that gun control = crime control.
Grouse
318MM people in the US, 3% = 9.5MM. 256MM guns / 9.5MM people = ~26.8 guns per person in the top 3%. Meh, my uncle has more guns than that. I’m sure there are rich dude gun collectors out there with thousands of guns…
Agreed. Some ol timers have years to collect, rich or not. Dufflebags full of handguns is pretty crazy to see 
Everything in nature is on a bell shaped curve. This was just a lame and scientifically invalid attempt to quantify the curve.
Would likely be an extremely right skewed distribution wouldn’t you think? Since the majority of people own zero guns and it’s not really possible to own negative guns.
It’s as skewed as isolating any group of Americans and trying to infer that they’re something wrong with the x% who owns XX% of something.
As I said, the more valid and revealing study would be the number of illegal guns used in crimes in Chicago compared to the number of all legally-held guns in the same area. I’m afraid the answer would be highly embarrassing to those who seek to equate gun control with crime control.
Grouse
As I said, the more valid and revealing study would be the number of illegal guns used in crimes in Chicago compared to the number of all legally-held guns in the same area. I’m afraid the answer would be highly embarrassing to those who seek to equate gun control with crime control.
Grouse
Do you think anyone would fund the research behind that report? It should be public information, but who’s got the time without funding to put it all together?
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