Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Woman uses 2 guns to shoot at would-be home invasion robber [View all]sarisataka
(20,409 posts)of guns bought through the "gun show loophole..." Do you know the source of that number?
It comes from a 1994 survey of 251 people who acquired a gun in the previous two years. 58.8% bought them over the counter at a store. The remaining 40.2% had the following origins- Gun show 3.9% (no that is not a typo), Mail (legal only to FFLs) 2.8%, family member 17.3%, Friend 12.3%, other 3.8%.
So in actuality the "gun show loophole" number is magnified by 10 by including many transfers which likely were done with a background check.
Also it is a sample size ~1/20th the size of Kleck's small survey.
http://www.policefoundation.org/sites/pftest1.drupalgardens.com/files/Cook%20et%20al.%20%281996%29%20-%20Guns%20in%20America.pdf
Bonus info- this report that is the source of that 40% number also covers DGUs. Like the recent CDC report it dismisses both the 2.5 million number as inflated but also notes flaws with the NCVS 108,000 as under counting DGUs by only counting those who report being crime victims and then not including all crime categories reported (specifically some property crime likely to bring a victim into contact with a criminal). This reports "conservative count for our most stringent criteria" is 648,000.