IMHO the decline has more to do with the Clinton recession than anything else. Firearms are a form of wealth, so if the money is being spent buying clothes for the kids it won't go for buying guns.
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• The University of Chicago's General Social Survey shows that 24 percent of adults polled in 2001 owned at least one gun, down from 31 percent in 1996. Previously, the figure held steady near 30 percent for the survey's 16-year history.
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If I lived in chicago I wouldn't tell them either. "No ma'am, we don't own any guns. We used to have one but we got to thinking about what would happen if anybody knew we had it so we threw it in the river with all our books. We don't have anything here except for some Bon Jovi CDs and a couple of back issues of 'Rosie'."
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In a few years when the dust finally clears and people start counting their change there is a pretty good chance that President Obama may become known as The Great
Absquatulator. You heard it first here on TFL.