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?