{"id":3821,"date":"2011-10-26T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/10\/26\/as-sayuncle-would-say-winning\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:16:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:16:40","slug":"as-sayuncle-would-say-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3821","title":{"rendered":"As SayUncle Would Say &#8211; Winning!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16797,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.gallup.com\\\/poll\\\/150353\\\/Self-Reported-Gun-Ownership-Highest-1993.aspx&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20170902210447\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.gallup.com\\\/poll\\\/150353\\\/Self-Reported-Gun-Ownership-Highest-1993.aspx&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.gallup.com\\\/poll\\\/150353\\\/Self-Reported-Gun-Ownership-Highest-1993.aspx&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 17:29:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 17:29:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16798,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.pagunblog.com\\\/2011\\\/10\\\/26\\\/latest-polling&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251204204456\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.pagunblog.com\\\/2011\\\/10\\\/26\\\/latest-polling\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 01:39:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 01:39:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/150353\/Self-Reported-Gun-Ownership-Highest-1993.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Gallup Poll released a report today<\/a> showing that self-reported gun ownership is at the highest level in 18 years. Currently, 47% of American households report that they have either a firearm in their home or somewhere else on their property. This is an increase from last year when only 41% of homes reported a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line according to Gallup is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>A clear societal change took place regarding gun ownership in the early 1990s, when the percentage of Americans saying there was a gun in their home or on their property dropped from the low to mid-50s into the low to mid-40s and remained at that level for the next 15 years. Whether this reflected a true decline in gun ownership or a cultural shift in Americans&#8217; willingness to say they had guns is unclear. <b>However, the new data suggest that attitudes may again be changing. At 47%, reported gun ownership is the highest it has been in nearly two decades &#8212; a finding that may be related to Americans&#8217; dampened support for gun-control laws.<\/b> However, to ensure that this year&#8217;s increase reflects a meaningful rebound in reported gun ownership, it will be important to see whether the uptick continues in future polling.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While gun ownership is highest among men, Republicans, and Southerners, what is most interesting to me is not that there is a difference between Democrats and Republicans but that self-identified Democrats or Democrat-leaning who report having a firearm rose from 32% to 40%. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/150353\/Self-Reported-Gun-Ownership-Highest-1993.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">graph on gun ownership by Party ID<\/a>.) This would correlate strongly with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagunblog.com\/2011\/10\/26\/latest-polling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what Sebastian reported earlier about support for a handgun-ban<\/a> being at record lows.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gallup Poll released a report today showing that self-reported gun ownership is at the highest level in 18&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1748,3518],"class_list":["post-3821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gallup-poll","tag-gun-ownership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7347,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions\/7347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}