Gun ownership in US

I have no proof but I doubt that is accurate. The western states look good but some of the lower end looks well off.
 
SPST said:
Out of a sample of 4,000 adults nationwide.
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Oh, c'mon...that's legit. Right?

SigFreud said:
If CBS asked me if I owned any guns, my answer would be NO !!
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Id tell them exactly how many I own...for no other reason than to see the pure fear in their eyes before their cranium explodes.

I have tax stamps, a high level security clearance, and my credit card history shows enough ammo purchases to arm several South African warlords. And that's before we talk about what's in my search history.
I'm under no illusions that I'm already on numerous Government 'watchlists', and if anyone on this forum thinks they are hiding their firearm ownership, I've got a bridge I'll sell them.
What in the hell is CBS gonna do?


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Generally you want sample size to be 10% of the population, but a population of more than 20,ooo tends to fall on the curve, so regardless of 21,000 or 500 million, you go with 20,000. So, 4,000 respondents is 1/5 of the statistically acceptable sample size.
 
What a joke - claiming that a poll of 4,000 people describes gun ownership in all 50 states. That would mean there were 80 respondents for each state (if the poll was evenly distributed). And we have not even touched on self-selection bias in this type of poll, which would normally skew results downward. Without a larger sample size and a description of methodology, this "poll" is nothing but propaganda.
 
There was no intellectual curiosity or desire to learn anything. The purpose of this "survey" was to push the narrative that down here in the South, we're a bunch of illiterates bitterly clinging to our guns and religion. Had the survey turned up answers other than what they wanted, they would re-survey until they got what they were looking for, or just found another way to spew their propaganda.
 
Such garbage...

Even here, on a FIREARMS community page, I guaranty that if you polled everyone here to what their firearm ownership was you would get this:

40%: What are firearms?
30%: I had one until a boating accident
20%: Nunya business
9%: Am I being detained
1%: How did I end up on this page? I was googling Tortuga and ended up here.
 
Goofyfoot2001 said:
So someone calls you on the phone and asks, "Hi, we're taking a poll, this is CBS, we are totally legit, how many fire arms do you own?" ...Click
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That’s why I’d bet they called people in Charlotte.
 
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Chuckman said:
The one guy I know in Cary has, like, 50 guns lol...he'd bust a poll like that wide open....
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I got bored a few years back and did not hang up on a pollster. When we were finished they rattle off a canned response. Poor kid sounded like I had just run over his dog he was so dejected. Made my day knowing I had apparently blown up their poll. lol
 
I say run with it.
That's right, no guns here. You need to be looking at Hawaii...they're like 10th! Scientists say that shooting all them guns and Trump's trade policies made the volcano explode.
You could make a real difference in Hawaii, Gem of the Pacific, it's worth saving! But you'd be wasting your time in North Carolina what with all them southern deplorables who think the voting booth is located at the Krispy Kreme.
Go to Hawaii. Do not come to North Carolina. It's terrible here.
 
They do sniping in a most unusual way in Alabama....


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draco88 said:
Oh, c'mon...that's legit. Right?



Id tell them exactly how many I own...for no other reason than to see the pure fear in their eyes before their cranium explodes.

I have tax stamps, a high level security clearance, and my credit card history shows enough ammo purchases to arm several South African warlords. And that's before we talk about what's in my search history.
I'm under no illusions that I'm already on numerous Government 'watchlists', and if anyone on this forum thinks they are hiding their firearm ownership, I've got a bridge I'll sell them.
What in the hell is CBS gonna do?


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Chuckman said:
Generally you want sample size to be 10% of the population, but a population of more than 20,ooo tends to fall on the curve, so regardless of 21,000 or 500 million, you go with 20,000. So, 4,000 respondents is 1/5 of the statistically acceptable sample size.
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That would be to determine the national statistics. You'd need 20K in each state for a valid sample of each state to get state level statistics. Just sayin.
 
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I personaly think that all the estimates for firearm ownership in the US are way low. I worked in a gun store for ten years and lurked these forums. There isn't anyway in hell there are only 300-400 million firearms in this country. Records hardly exist for before 1968 and the guns from all the world wars where probably mostly brought home by troops. Not to mention all the home made and so called illegaly imported firearms. I bet it is easily twice what they think it is.
 
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Short Fuse said:
I personaly think that all the estimates for firearm ownership in the US are way low.
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There have been about 290 million NICS checks in just a few months short of 20 years. Yep, people might have acquired a few guns before NICS started keeping records.
 
gc70 said:
There have been about 290 million NICS checks in just a few months short of 20 years. Yep, people might have acquired a few guns before NICS started keeping records.
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And lots of those checks were for multiple guns...
 
A poll is about as useless and teats on a boar hog. If you stand outside a bar and ask those who come out if they drink you will get one result. Stand outside a church and ask the same question and the result will be vastly different.
 
JimP42 said:
That would be to determine the national statistics. You'd need 20K in each state for a valid sample of each state to get state level statistics. Just sayin.
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20,000 is sufficient, with 95% confidence, 5% margin of error.

Of course you can exceed but the data should not change unless it is flawed methodology or research.
 
Chuckman said:
20,000 is sufficient, with 95% confidence, 5% margin of error.

Of course you can exceed but the data should not change unless it is flawed methodology or research.
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By the same logic though, you need 10%, or 20k, to do a study just of NC, to get valid data for NC, correct?

And the point of their study was the per state numbers for comparison. So to get that data don’t you need a 20k study in each state?
 
JimP42 said:
By the same logic though, you need 10%, or 20k, to do a study just of NC, to get valid data for NC, correct?

And the point of their study was the per state numbers for comparison. So to get that data don’t you need a 20k study in each state?
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You're absolutely right, to make an accurate picture of each state you need to pull the same number of each state or 20,000 from each state. But once you get over 20,000 in a sample regardless of your population size if your methodology is strong you can draw the same conclusions from the data.

There is a method of proportional sampling where you can sample a percentage of each state based on the overall population of the state, but if you do that you would likely come out with the same data, it's just a different method.

Edited to add, I'm not an expert in this nor am I a statistician, but I had to take a graduate-level statistics class for research, so I just happen to have this information in the forefront of my mind right now.
 
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Was that poll conducted on survey monkey?
 
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