More People Own Guns Than Is Commonly Believed…

[KellyinAvon]

Another article on this. ..

Gun Ownership Twice as High as Previously Thought?

The "official" estimates are obviously low. How low is the question.

Gotta look at that study when I have more time.

 

[actaeon277]

I think the media, uses old numbers, and forgets the last decade (or so) had a HUGE increase in the numbers of gun owners.
MANY new owners.
Each minority class made huge gains in gun owners.

I know at work it went from "Why do you need to buy 1,000 rounds at a time?", to "Hey, what kind of gun do you recommend?", and "Know where I can find ammo?"

 

[actaeon277]

At my American Legion Post, a woman commented on the gun I was carrying.
The bartender and half the bartenders laid a gun on the counter.


She was... shocked.

Then someone said, this is an American Legion, what did you expect?

Course, the opposite of that would be the "no guns allowed" sign outside of Post 66 Griffith.

 

[Mongo59]

If you look back I think Obama and Biden are both down for salesman of the year...

 

[Mongo59]

Course, the opposite of that would be the "no guns allowed" sign outside of Post 66 Griffith.

At Scotty's bar down in Florida they search you for arms when you come in and give you one if you aren't carrying...

 

[FNparabellum]

I can believe that!

 

[KellyinAvon]

Gotta look at that study when I have more time.

OK, I looked... wow that was painful.

First off, I'm not paying $40 to get the whole study. The abstract and conclusions drove me to drink as it was.

From the abstract: A Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial (ZINB) regression was utilized to determine potential underreporting of firearm ownership, and a latent class analysis was utilized to determine unique subgroups of those who were identified as underreporting firearm ownership in the ZINB.

Translation: they broke it down to three subgroups based on demographic factors, then reverse-engineered each subgroup to get a normal distribution pattern AKA a bell-curve. Apply the factor to the original data and there ya go. Too many people saying "no" when they should say "yes" (because they do own a gun or guns) skews the bell-curve negatively.

N=3500 means there were 3500 surveyed. This study cited the William English/Georgetown University study that I like to cite, but I thought it was low with the percentage of gun owners (34% IIRC.) This study had north of 16K surveyed. Gary Kleck's study on DGUs in 93 had around 5K IIRC.

This study said 1306 out of 3500 under-reported firearm ownership. How did they know that? I'm curious but not "spending $40 to find out" curious.

Kelly's very rough reverse engineering: Instead of 34% of the (adult) population owning an average of 5 guns, 55% owning an average of 3 guns is roughly the same number of guns (estimated 400M privately owned firearms in the US)

Predicting potential underreporting of firearm ownership in a nationally representative sample - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Purpose This study utilized demographic and intrapersonal variables to identify individuals who may have falsely denied firearm ownership and determined if individuals can be divided into meaningful subgroups. Methods Participants were United States residents (N = 3500) recruited from January to...

link.springer.com

 

[DadSmith]

 

[Mongo59]

I can understand the confusion. My new grandson isn't a week old yet and he already has 3...

 

[MCgrease08]

I just posted the same… I am glad I am not that only non-gun owner here.

We hardly even have to change the name of the forum. Welcome to INNGO.