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Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by brightball on Friday May 03, 2019 @11:32AM (#19819299)
Do you mean the percentage of owners?

I can count on one hand the number of people I know who own a home but don't own a firearm.

Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by omegaham on Friday May 03, 2019 @12:38PM (#19819915)
It's definitely region-dependent.

I grew up in an affluent suburb of Massachusetts, where guns were really uncommon.

I got stationed in Yuma, Arizona, where pretty much everyone owned guns.

Here in a suburb of Portland, OR, it's somewhere in the middle. Oregon is an interesting state.

Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by jcranmer on Friday May 03, 2019 @11:45AM (#19819422)
I did mean the percentage, but it does look like the absolute number of households owning guns has very slightly declined.
Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by Junk_Collector on Friday May 03, 2019 @12:11PM (#19819645)
I imagine it's difficult to get good numbers on ownership though as the cross section of people who would not disclose firearm ownership to the government or polling agency would also be likely to own a firearm. This is compounded by the fact that firearms last upwards of 100 years with minimal maintenance and there are healthy secondary and black markets for them.
Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by hcurtiss on Friday May 03, 2019 @04:28PM (#19821961)
Nope. No guns at this here house. Not since the tragic boating accident of early 2019.
Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by et2o on Friday May 03, 2019 @11:41AM (#19819389)
What state do you live?
Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by brightball on Friday May 03, 2019 @01:08PM (#19820185)
South Carolina.