Desperate WaPo: There Are Fewer Gun Owners Buying These Millions Of Guns!

By Bob Owens

We’ve been warning readers for quite a while that the General Social Survey (GSS) cited so often by gun control supporters to claim that gun ownership is declining in the United States is utter rubbish.

The incredibly dubious claim by the University of Chicago that ownership is decreasing does not comport with other surveys, or with sales data, permit applications, ammunition consumption, the demand for more classes of every type, or range development and range usage data.

Quite simply, every credible data point suggests gun ownership in the United States has exploded in recent years, unbounded by age, race, sex, or (for the most part) geography.

This dependence on the clearly faulty GSS as an “article of faith” for gun control supporters has led to some absurdly interesting conclusions, with the latest bit of accidental humor coming from the Washington Post.

Christopher Ingraham is using his reliance on faulty GSS data to argue that since (in his reality) number of gun owners hasn’t actually increased, that each gun owner must be buying twice as many guns.