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Re:De-Obfuscating the Statistics of Mass Shootings by hga on Monday July 06, 2015 @01:09PM (#9840561)
This was in reference to a statistic about who's buying newly manufactured "assault weapons", particularly the mass quantities of AR-15 pattern rifles and the like that have been selling like hot cakes since the 2008 election.

It insisted that only us "gun nuts", not e.g. the large number of households that only have one or two guns for self-protection, were buying almost all of these new guns; to review and improve my estimate we'd have to find that particular statistic/study.

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Re:De-Obfuscating the Statistics of Mass Shootings by mikeash on Monday July 06, 2015 @01:23PM (#9840680)
I see. Is there some context in the gun world that I'm missing out on? Since the comment you replied to said nothing about AR-15s or indeed anything beyond the number of gun-owning households and number of guns overall changing over the years.
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