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California: registered gun owners double in seven years
Posted by David Hardy · 10 March 2019 04:58 PM
Story here. Pretty surprising, given the increasingly burdensome laws there. Given that, if ownership is steeply increasing in a place like California, it logically is increasing where it's easier to become a gun owner, this is a rebuttal to survey-based claims that fewer households are owning guns.
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The authors have made a major mistake.
The APPS data is for people who are banned from possessing guns, whether by their criminal convictions or by court order.
There is no demonstrated correlation between APPS entries and overall gun ownership.
There's a difference between registered gun ownership and gun ownership rates. California started requiring registration for long guns in 2014.