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How does anybody determine who has a gun and who doesn't? I was born when Harry Truman was President in my long life I never had anybody ask me about the firearms I own. If they did I would probably not tell them the truth because it is none of their business.
I have friends that own firearms that would never admit to anybody that they have them.
The references you posted are based upon telephone polling from a small number of people and are very unreliable. You are just gullible.
Guess different places (and different times) have different attitudes. I grew up in Montana where hunting was a way of life for many of us, and if asked if we had guns, we usually said yes. Actual number wasn't referred to as much, just when asked, the reply was "a few" which could mean anywhere from 2 to over 30 (my Uncle Bill had around 27 guns in the house where only 7 people lived, about half handguns and half rifles and the foster family I lived with had around 7 for a family with 5, mostly rifles with 2 handguns). And, you generally knew which high school students owned guns, because when hunting season came around, all the kids with gun racks in their vehicles had at least 1 rifle in their rack, many with 2 or 3. And, that wasn't because they were looking to shoot up the school, they were just being prepared in case they saw an animal for hunting on their ride into school (my school was 30 miles away from where I lived). Times have changed a great deal since I was in school, as now you can be expelled for pointing a finger gun at another student.