Questions for Guns in America
pp. 1-28
How were respondent households contacted?
What sampling method was used?
How were respondents selected within the household?
What was their response rate?
How did they estimate gun ownership and how did their
estimates differ from estimates in other studies and why?
Were there differences between self and household gun
ownership reports? Why?
What are gun stocks like? If someone owns a handgun
how likely are they to own another gun?
How are guns stored?
How are guns acquired? Does it look like people are
waiting for cheap handguns?
pp. 31-56
What are the patterns of handgun ownership? Are the
different from the pattern of gun ownership? What are the
implications? What are reasons for owning guns vs. handguns? What are
reasons for not owning?
Are sporting gun owners different from nonsporting gun
owners? What are the implications?
How did they determine gun accidents?
How did they determine gun carrying and what did they find?
pp. 77-84
How did they ask about support for handgun control?
What did they find? Does the support depend on the type of control in question?
pp.57-76
What are DGUS, how did they get at them, what did they
find, and what do they conclude about the possibility of getting at
DGUS with this methodology?
pp. 85-87
What are their main conclusions? What do these say
about the limits of the social science enterprise?