Guns, Guns, Whose Got The Guns?

By Ammoland

By C.D. Michel

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- No one knows how many American households have guns. That’s the good news.

The only way to know with any degree of accuracy would be through national registration, which hasn’t happened – at least not yet.

But a lack of knowledge doesn’t keep the gun ban lobby from trying to marginalize those who choose to own a gun. These gun control groups crowed recently when various mass media outlets parroted a report from the General Social Survey (GSS) claiming;

That the number of American households owning guns was declining…?

This headline surprised everyone who sells guns, performs background checks and visits gun ranges, because they all have anecdotally witnessed the growing mass appeal of firearms, and the dramatic increase in business it has caused for the last decade or so.

During that time, there were more guns sold than ever before. So clearly, more guns are out there that ever. But what percentage of American households has one? Is that percentage really declining?

Polling Controversy

Curiously, while the GSS survey showed a downward slope in the number of households admitting to owning guns, ABC news, <a class="colorbox" href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/1645/Guns.aspx" …read more

Source:: AmmoLand