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Is Gallup Conducting Surveys or Publishing Gun Fiction?

 

Gun ownership rates haven’t changed much since the 1960s, Gallup pollsters would have you believe. Gun ownership is actually two points lower today than it was in the 60s, the polling giant claims. 

According to Gallup, gun ownership data has been roughly the same for more than 60 years: 44% of Americans admit they have a gun in their home, but only 30% admit the gun is theirs and 14% say the gun isn’t theirs. 

This data, minus a point or two, has been used in Gallup’s stories for years. 

From an 11-year-old Gallup story titled Men, Married, Southerners Most Likely to Be Gun Owners, “an average of 30% of Americans said they personally own a gun.

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