William Rivers Pitt | An Open Letter to Lovers of the Gun

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231. How was it determined that the number of homes with firearms has dropped? ...

A surveyor came to the door of a home and interviewed the residents or they responded to a phone survey.

Many people that I know who are gun owners would NEVER tell a stranger that they had a firearm in their home. In some cases their neighbors and even members of their family don't know they own firearms. I know that they do own firearms as I shoot at ranges with them.

My daughter worked for the last census and she ran across a lot of people who refused to tell her how many people lived in their home or obviously lied about the number. She had a good number of doors slammed in her face as many people distrust our government so much that they had absolutely no desire to talk to a census taker.

Of course you can choose to believe the propaganda pushed by gun control advocates that fewer and fewer homes have firearms inside. I will just remind you that after the tragic school shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, there were long lines at every gun show in the nation and gun stores sold almost every firearm they had on their shelves as well as all the ammo. Many buyers were purchasing their first firearm as they feared that it would no longer be possible in the future.

Gun sales hit new record, ammo boom to follow
Background checks show peak is reached after a record year
By David Sherfinski-The Washington Times Monday, January 6, 2014

Gun records checks, fueled by a post-Newtown boom of gun sales, hit a new high in 2013, and industry analysts expect ammunition to be the big seller this year as consumers catch up to all of those firearms purchases.

More than 21 million applications were run through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System last year, marking nearly an 8 percent increase and the 11th straight year that the number has risen.

Background checks serve as a proxy for the number of gun sales, which soared in the months immediately after the December 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. But NICS checks plummeted in November and December compared with a year earlier, suggesting that the boom may be over.
“2013 was the best year for firearm sales (commercial, domestic) in history — period! That’s true for NH to Hawaii,” said Richard Feldman, president of the Independent Firearm Owners Association in Rindge, N.H. “Ruger alone sold well over one million guns this year.”
Read more: http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/6/boom-for-guns-likely-to-trigger-rush-on-ammo/#ixzz2rShbJlUq