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Re: Report: California Saw Huge Increase in Gun Ownership Over Last Decade Despite Strict Gun Laws 

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Re: "8 percent of Californian adults owning guns"I wouldn't read too much into this. One in three Americans own guns, but just one in twelve California ADULTS does.

It's easy to forget, but 12.5 percent of Californians are registered Republicans. I'd wager that they are the state's gun buyers. When 'The People' finally rise up, it's going to be a bloodbath in favor of the Conservatives. The only question is, what happens THEN? Do all the remaining liberals get kicked out of the country? Imprisoned? (We don't have that many prisons.) It's impossible to say and it probably boils down to the level of anger in the country at the time.





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Report: California Saw Huge Increase in Gun Ownership Over Last Decade Despite Strict Gun Laws
By: kathy_s16 in POPE 5
Sun, 17 Mar 19 6:23 PM 		Msg. 28097 of 62138

BY: Stephen Gutowski and Charles Fain Lehman
March 9, 2019 5:00 am

Despite some of the nation's toughest laws, the number of gun owners in California has more than doubled over the past ten years, according to new data released Friday by the state Department of Justice.

The state of California maintains a one-of-a-kind database of known gun owners, the Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS). APPS combines data on firearm transactions from two different state sources, the Dealer Record of Sale (DROS) database which tracks all transfers made by gun dealers and the Automated Firearms System (AFS) which includes the subset of guns the state requires to be registered, to compile a list of all individuals who legally purchased or were transferred a firearm in California.

Operated continuously since 2006, the program's goal is to identify and seize the weapons of individuals prohibited from owning a gun under state law.

Every year, the California Department of Justice provides a report to the state legislature documenting the number of individuals who have had their guns reclaimed using APPS. That report also makes public the number of individuals actually in APPS, a rough measure of the total number of gun owners in California.

What those data show is that, as of 2019, there are more than 2.5 million gun owners in California, compared to fewer than a million in 2008. That figure translates to about 8 percent of Californian adults owning guns, compared to 3.4 percent in 2008—a more than two-fold increase, even when adjusting for population.
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