NEW YORK — The share of American households with guns has declined over the past four decades, a national survey shows, with some of the most surprising drops in the South and the Western mountain states, where guns are deeply embedded in the culture.
The gun ownership rate has fallen across a broad cross section of households since the early 1970s, according to data from the General Social Survey, a public opinion survey conducted every two years that asks a sample of American adults if they have guns at home, among other questions.
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The notion that all the new gun sales are to existing owners is inconsistent with the high numbers of new concealed carry permit applications. Isn't possible that more people are not answering the survey truthfully due to the villification of gun ownership by political leades and the media?
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The NRA has 4 million members. There are 80 million gun owners in the United States. Since the NRA only represents 5 percent of gun owners, why such deference to them?
Good question Pot. Is there really a bunch of bowing down to the NRA in DC, or is that an enemy the anti gun folks have created for a focal point?
It would seem to me that politicians are well aware of the 80M gun owners and think about how that effects their chances of being elected/reelected without the NRA reminding them.
But notice that anyone who owns a gun is assumed to be a member of the hated NRA and therefore is also to scorned and ridiculed. But then we have Senator Soles in NC who about a year ago shot an intruder at his home in NC. Doubt if he was a member of the NRA, given he has been a staunch anti gun type for years.
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