We Gun Owners are a private bunch. We were forced to be thanks to Gun Controllers in the late 80s and 90s who wanted our bank accounts and lives through threats of extra taxation, penalties and raids by jackbooted thugs.
So, even if we were completely out of or minds on post-operative pain killers and somehow we let some hired scribe come into our homes to do a survey, the last thing we will tell you is if we even own a slingshot.
And if you really need to know, I lost all my firearms in a tragic trans-oceanic trip to Antarctica. The gun safe was accidentally knocked off the ship somewhere in the vicinity of Galapagos Island. I am suing the Maori ship-owner in International court.
There, you can now check-mark that box in your form.
I’ve never told any survey taker that I owned a gun or even that there was a gun in the house.
Now if they checked my twitter feed… they’d never have to ask. And even there I don’t indicate how many I might own.
Maine has the highest number of boating accidents per capita. I’m sorry to report that everything went overboard a few years ago in Sebago, right around the deepest point.
No wonder when I was at my folks’ place a few weeks ago, I was smelling like Hoppes No. 9 when I got out of the shower! š
Oh, I won’t lie…come and take mine if you think you can; I will shoot anyone who tries and only add to my collection. Lets get this Civil War kicked off and the government restored back to it’s rightful place.
Yeah, I don’t mind. Sure, I own several guns. Want to see the propane tanks I shot with my Marlin, or hear about the time I bullseyed a pop can at 100 yards with my Hi-Point?
Huh, where’d he go?
It’s not a lie. It’s none of their business.
If the government (or anybody else) wants to know if there are guns around, let them look up the reports generated by the ATF/FBI on the number of transactions, and then at least double it to account for all the folks who did not go through a recorded transaction. (Law abiding citizens involved in private sales and prohibited persons trying to avoid incriminating themselves.)
Do you want to know if [u]I[/u] own a gun? You might consider coming through my door offering to do me serious bodily or injury if not to kill me. But if you thought that I might own a gun you might consider that a foolish endeavor.
How many ever thought of gun ownership in terms of detante/peristroika?
stay safe.
“That’s not a gun safe, that is my child proof beer fridge.”
NONE OF THEIR F/ING BUSINESS… And yes I’m yelling!
I will not tell a stranger over the phone if I own guns. How do you know they are who they say they are? If I was looking to score some guns for the criminal market, I’d pose as a poll taker and call around. Of course the FUDD’s will tell them, they think their shiny deer rifles are beyond reach of the government. Boy are they in for a surprise.
You mean their shiny high power sniper rifle right? The one that shoots rounds that can pierce the level IIa body armor commonly used by law enforcement?
That’s the ones.
Well obviously those should be banned then. Who needs to be able to kill people from that range, and through body armor no less?
Got a bunch of calls last year from GSS. I just ignored them.
Info I’ve seen on this survey indicates they questioned less than 2800 people.
Who the hecks answers phone surveys anyway? Don’t most people just hit “ignore”, or hang up as soon as the first words from the automated voice begin?
Then it hit me- crazy cat ladies! That’s the only people willing to actually answer a phone survey of this kind, and would be willing to actually talk in detail about guns and stuff.
Because that’s pretty much the only contact they have with the outside world. Other than buying cat food 100 pounds at a time.
With all of the military bases we have in the Virginia Beach area I did a poll to find out if people are buying mil surp. Imagine my surprise to find out that 57% of house holds have ether a used F-14 or A10 warthog in their garage.