Posted April 15, 2016 11:00 am by Comments

By Robert Farago

(courtesy The Truth About Guns)

Rasmussen has just released a new poll on gun ownership in the United States. The company asked the following four questions: “Have you or someone in your immediate family bought a gun in the past year? What is the main reason most people purchase a gun – self-defense, to commit a criminal act, for job purposes, some other reason? Is it too easy or too hard to buy a gun in the United States today? Or is the level of difficulty about right?” The survey SAID . . .

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that nearly one-out-of-four Americans (23%) say they or someone in their immediate family has bought a gun in the past year. Seventy percent (70%) have not, but six percent (6%) aren’t sure.

Gun control proponents assert that the number of American families owning guns has been decreasing. That the ongoing sales surge is the result of a smaller number of owners buying more guns, rather than an expanding base.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation says poppycock. According to their annual survey of 537 firearms retailers in all 50 states, first-time buyers account for some 25 percent of sales. “It’s been that way for …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns

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