http://www.statisticbrain.com/gun-ownership-statistics-demographics/

 

Not too much surprising here. Gun ownership has generally declined if polling is accurate.

How many gun owners now say "No" when asked by a pollster if they own a gun? Some people may just want to stay under the radar

as much as possible when it comes to their gun ownership.

 

I actually think gun ownership has gone up in the last few years and I think NICS data would bear that out.

 

In certain circles, however, especially here in NJ, people are incredulous when you say you own guns. Especially "guns" - plural / multiple.

 

That kind of information just does not compute for them

I too tell strangers on the phone what I own.

 

Because obviously all those new gun owners I personally know have come about because lots of existing owners lost their guns in boating accidents or something. Because somehow 8% of the public has given up their guns in the last 7 years while we had record gun sales. Because "gun in the home" implies only one of the people in the home owns a gun not all members of the home.

those stats are bullsh*t and we all know it..  there are a record number of new gun owners..  there's a reason towns are taking 3-6 months to get permits...  i would say 30-40% of all shooters are less than 1 year into it..  (these are guesses, mind you)..

 

media spinning to what they want to show, thats all...

Gallup has been fairly good in the past accounting for such things. I doubt that was a Gallup poll, is there a link to it?

 

It looks more like Social Survey poll (ant-gun organization results) which generally run about 20 points low. Not 20 percent of the question result, 20 total points. In other words, or numbers, 36% would mean 56%+.

It is from gallup indeed: http://www.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx

 

its just that look at the fluctuation on that poll, it makes little statistical sense to assume people turn into gun owners and change their mind that much.