https://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7...017.3.5.02
American gun owners overall tend to be from a particular demographic profile: more male, older, whiter, rural, and southern.
Handgun only gun owners, by contrast, tend to come from different demographic groups, as summarized from the report linked above.
Women are nearly twice as likely as men to own only handguns (42% to 22%), Blacks are more than twice as likely and Hispanics nearly twice as likely as whites to own only handguns (57% to 38% to 20%), and those who live in urban areas are more than twice as likely as rural folks to own only handguns (40% to 15%).
Other interesting findings are political liberals are nearly twice as likely as political conservatives to own only handguns (36% to 20%), and (not shown) those who did not grow up with a gun in the home are more than twice as likely as those who did to own only handguns (44% to 20%).
Related: Gary Kleck, Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, December 7, 2017
Abstract
Levine and McKnight claim that the slight increase in "gun exposure" following the Sandy Hook mass shooting caused a huge increase in fatal gun accidents. This paper explains why the conclusion is unwarranted, and the authors' methods were inappropriate.
Keywords: gun accidents, gun sales
JEL Classification: K42
Suggested Citation:
Kleck, Gary, Cherry-Picking Spikes in Gun Sales: Comment on Levine and Mcknight (2017) (December 7, 2017). Available at SSRN:
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3084699
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